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Attock, 
Pakistan
241,714 people lived in Attock in 2025. It is the 2427th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 71st largest in Pakistan.
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 Attock grew
Count 10 people in Attock in 1975 and the same count gives 44.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 349,667 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Attock through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Attock in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 323 cities in Pakistan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Karachi. The ringed dot in colour is Attock; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Attock covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.7 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5.8 times its size, and its people are 2.7 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Attock, which is 241,714 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Pakistan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Attock's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2414 Khajauli India242,567
- 2417 Kannauj India242,353
- 2419 Monclova Mexico242,237
- 2421 Boma Democratic Republic of the Congo242,042
- 2427 Attock241,714
- 2430 Tambacounda Senegal241,254
- 2431 Ore Nigeria241,251
- 2432 Mianwali241,207
- 2436 Xinchang China240,747
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2290 Shakar Garh254,655
- 2337 Chakwal249,801
- 2338 Pattoki249,646
- 2381 Khairpur244,838
- 2427 Attock241,714
- 2432 Mianwali241,207
- 2544 Hasilpur230,987
- 2576 Lalamusa228,248
- 2598 Bahawalnagar226,415
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Attock 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 Attock 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 →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries