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Warangal, 
India
837,561 people lived in Warangal in 2025. It is the 628th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 97th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Warangal grew
For every 10 people in Warangal in 1975, there were 23.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 878,477 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Warangal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Warangal in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Warangal is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Warangal covered 105 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.9 times its size, and its people are 2.3 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Warangal, which is 837,561 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Warangal. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 624 Kotwali839,900
- 625 Cuernavaca Mexico839,485
- 626 Fuyang China839,236
- 627 Colachel837,735
- 628 Warangal837,561
- 629 Kermanshah Iran837,230
- 630 Tengzhou China834,697
- 631 Campo Grande Brazil833,403
- 632 Tirana Albania833,020
In India, 2025
- 616 Muzaffarnagar849,004
- 623 Bakhtiyarpur843,195
- 624 Kotwali839,900
- 627 Colachel837,735
- 628 Warangal837,561
- 636 Imphal824,757
- 640 Vellore820,103
- 641 Kolhapur819,671
- 646 Munger814,325
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Warangal are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Warangal publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
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