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Charsadda, 
Pakistan
413,686 people lived in Charsadda in 2025. It is the 1360th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 41st largest in Pakistan.
Like every city on this site, Charsadda is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Charsadda grew
Where Charsadda had 10 people in 1975, it had 31.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 742,813 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Charsadda through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Charsadda in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Charsadda 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, Charsadda covered 55 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.6 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people are 3.1 times as many.
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, 2 lived in Charsadda, which is 413,686 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Charsadda. 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
- 1356 Escondido United States415,167
- 1357 Batangas City Philippines415,103
- 1358 São José do Rio Preto Brazil414,406
- 1359 Sareyn Iran413,772
- 1360 Charsadda413,686
- 1361 Port Moresby Papua New Guinea413,223
- 1362 Hathras India413,122
- 1363 Ciudad del Este Paraguay412,725
- 1364 Sanhur Egypt412,618
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1234 Haripur451,578
- 1289 Daska433,772
- 1333 Raiwind421,524
- 1335 Kamoke421,152
- 1360 Charsadda413,686
- 1402 Joharabad403,179
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan401,839
- 1456 Takht Bhai390,608
- 1479 Muzaffargarh384,838
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 Charsadda 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 Charsadda 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