Dhanbad has a population of 1,196,214, making it the 41st largest place we list in India. It is in Jharkhand.
Dhanbad holds under a tenth of one per cent of India's 1,476,625,576 people. Mumbai, the largest place we list there, is 11 times its size.
1,196,214
population
#41
in India
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Nowrangapur | Odisha | 1,220,946 |
| Srinagar | Jammu and Kashmir | 1,206,419 |
| Ghāziābād | Uttar Pradesh | 1,199,191 |
| Aurangabad | Maharashtra | 1,175,116 |
| Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh | 1,164,404 |
| Amritsar | Punjab | 1,159,227 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.