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Battagram, 
Pakistan
166,956 people lived in Battagram in 2025. It is the 3622nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 111th 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 Battagram grew
For every 10 people in Battagram in 1985, there were 27.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 392,771 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 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Battagram through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Battagram in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Battagram is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Pakistan in 2025, 323 in all, led by Karachi, 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, Battagram covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.1 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 29%.
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 Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Battagram, which is 166,956 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 Battagram's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3607 Gao Mali167,417
- 3611 Ulipur Bangladesh167,347
- 3613 Ngozi Burundi167,196
- 3615 Berbera Somalia167,119
- 3622 Battagram166,956
- 3628 Unguwar Arewa Nigeria166,817
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh Yemen166,653
- 3652 Matta165,993
- 3659 Sandoa Democratic Republic of the Congo165,522
In Pakistan, 2025
- 3313 Kotli181,837
- 3400 Oghi177,887
- 3434 Layyah176,125
- 3513 Gujar Khan172,682
- 3622 Battagram166,956
- 3652 Matta165,993
- 3721 Samarbagh162,603
- 3917 Thatta154,717
- 4118 Baffa147,524
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 Battagram are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Battagram 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