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Dera Ismail Khan, 
Pakistan
401,839 people lived in Dera Ismail Khan in 2025. It is the 1407th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 43rd 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 Dera Ismail Khan grew
Where Dera Ismail Khan had 10 people in 1985, it had 63.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 559,005 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Dera Ismail Khan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dera Ismail Khan 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 Dera Ismail Khan; 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, Dera Ismail Khan covered 74 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 10.8 times its size, and its people are 6.4 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 Dera Ismail Khan, which is 401,839 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 Dera Ismail Khan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1403 Tumakuru India403,109
- 1404 Bharatpur India402,987
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh Egypt402,716
- 1406 Palakkad India401,965
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan401,839
- 1408 Tepic Mexico401,753
- 1409 Feni Bangladesh401,506
- 1410 Mallawi Egypt401,471
- 1411 Bhiwadi India401,290
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1333 Raiwind421,524
- 1335 Kamoke421,152
- 1360 Charsadda413,686
- 1402 Joharabad403,179
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan401,839
- 1456 Takht Bhai390,608
- 1479 Muzaffargarh384,838
- 1507 Mirpur Khas376,343
- 1524 Pakpattan374,389
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Dera Ismail Khan 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 Dera Ismail 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