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Garhi Habibullah, 
Pakistan
147,308 people lived in Garhi Habibullah in 2025. It is the 4131st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 133rd 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 Garhi Habibullah grew
For every 10 people in Garhi Habibullah in 2000, there were 26.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 343,966 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, 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
Garhi Habibullah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Garhi Habibullah 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 Garhi Habibullah; 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, Garhi Habibullah covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.6 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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, 1 lived in Garhi Habibullah, which is 147,308 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 Garhi Habibullah; 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
- 4091 Bori Nigeria148,370
- 4103 Suncheon-si South Korea147,975
- 4117 Mukanga Democratic Republic of the Congo147,526
- 4118 Baffa147,524
- 4131 Garhi Habibullah147,308
- 4208 Bontang Indonesia145,118
- 4221 Buligenyi Uganda144,692
- 4275 Abu Huminus Egypt142,823
- 4282 Kribi Cameroon142,534
In Pakistan, 2025
- 3652 Matta165,993
- 3721 Samarbagh162,603
- 3917 Thatta154,717
- 4118 Baffa147,524
- 4131 Garhi Habibullah147,308
- 4637 Alipur131,848
- 4985 Khar Bajaur122,854
- 8155 Harichand76,461
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 Garhi Habibullah are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Garhi Habibullah 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