Ghaziabad is world's fastest-growing city; Surat, Patna, Rajkot also feature on list
Ghaziabad tops the World Population Review's 2026 ranking of the world's fastest-growing cities, with an annual population growth rate of 5.2 per cent. Surat ranks second at 4.99 per cent, while Patna, Rajkot and Faridabad feature among cities recording 4 per cent annual growth.
According to the World Population Review's "Fastest Growing Cities in the World 2026" ranking, Ghaziabad has emerged as the world's fastest-growing city by annual population growth, followed by Surat, Kabul and Lagos. Here are the cities featured in ... [1499 chars]
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