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Batkhela, 
Pakistan
204,156 people lived in Batkhela in 2025. It is the 2922nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 86th largest in Pakistan.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Batkhela's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Batkhela grew
Where Batkhela had 10 people in 1995, it had 35 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 344,691 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Batkhela through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Batkhela 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 Batkhela; 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, Batkhela covered 26 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.2 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 59%.
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 Batkhela, which is 204,156 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Batkhela. 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
- 2908 Mongbwalu Democratic Republic of the Congo205,051
- 2915 Firozkoh Afghanistan204,753
- 2920 Alaba Kulito Ethiopia204,316
- 2921 Nanxun China204,276
- 2922 Batkhela204,156
- 2924 Asarganj India204,072
- 2926 Livingstone Zambia203,972
- 2927 Muktagacha Bangladesh203,965
- 2933 Duekoue Côte d’Ivoire203,323
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2762 Arifwala214,409
- 2788 Inayat Killi212,640
- 2843 Depalpur209,417
- 2902 Havelian Cantonment205,608
- 2922 Batkhela204,156
- 2957 Sakhakot201,598
- 2964 Pasrur201,450
- 3039 Mian Channu196,976
- 3042 Dina196,799
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 Batkhela are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Batkhela 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