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Daska, 
Pakistan
433,772 people lived in Daska in 2025. It is the 1289th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 38th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Daska governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Daska grew
Where Daska had 10 people in 1975, it had 36.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 748,758 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
Daska through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Daska in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Daska 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, Daska covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.0 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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 Daska, which is 433,772 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 Daska's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1285 Sambhal India435,760
- 1286 Gaozhou China435,368
- 1287 Seremban Malaysia434,530
- 1288 Bhilwara India434,406
- 1289 Daska433,772
- 1290 Shizhong China433,213
- 1291 Mbandaka Democratic Republic of the Congo432,976
- 1292 Hamilton Canada432,788
- 1293 Huiminxiang China432,064
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1213 Jhelum457,793
- 1223 Hafizabad454,903
- 1225 Sadiqabad454,465
- 1234 Haripur451,578
- 1289 Daska433,772
- 1333 Raiwind421,524
- 1335 Kamoke421,152
- 1360 Charsadda413,686
- 1402 Joharabad403,179
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 Daska 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 Daska 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