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Dera Ghazi Khan, 
Pakistan
572,505 people lived in Dera Ghazi Khan in 2025. It is the 956th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 26th 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 Dera Ghazi Khan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dera Ghazi Khan grew
Where Dera Ghazi Khan had 10 people in 1975, it had 67.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2045 and 2050.
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
Dera Ghazi Khan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dera Ghazi Khan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Dera Ghazi Khan 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, Dera Ghazi Khan covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 8.2 times its size, and its people are 3.5 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 2 lived in Dera Ghazi Khan, which is 572,505 people.
How to read this: shrink Pakistan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Dera Ghazi Khan; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 952 Binzhou China576,823
- 953 Ballia India576,284
- 954 Valledupar Colombia574,824
- 955 Nakuru Kenya574,091
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan572,505
- 957 Caleta Sanitaria Peru572,154
- 958 Alwar India571,972
- 959 Jhang571,359
- 960 Jafar Muhammad Ali Iraq570,883
In Pakistan, 2025
- 787 Okara683,747
- 869 Bannu620,328
- 871 Larkana618,408
- 890 Kasur609,468
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan572,505
- 959 Jhang571,359
- 1036 Swabi535,083
- 1060 Shabqadar521,259
- 1061 Shahkot520,664
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 Dera Ghazi Khan 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 Dera Ghazi Khan 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