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Hafizabad, 
Pakistan
454,903 people lived in Hafizabad in 2025. It is the 1223rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 35th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Hafizabad governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hafizabad grew
For every 10 people in Hafizabad in 1975, there were 36.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 729,701 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
Hafizabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hafizabad 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 Hafizabad; 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, Hafizabad covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.5 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 4.3 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 Hafizabad, which is 454,903 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Hafizabad. 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
- 1219 Irapuato Mexico456,628
- 1220 Cheboksary Russia456,304
- 1221 Raiganj India456,239
- 1222 Vladivostok Russia455,141
- 1223 Hafizabad454,903
- 1224 Butembo Democratic Republic of the Congo454,857
- 1225 Sadiqabad454,465
- 1226 Surrey Canada454,230
- 1227 Nantes France453,523
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1094 Kohat506,145
- 1097 Mansehra503,920
- 1148 Yar Hussain483,239
- 1213 Jhelum457,793
- 1223 Hafizabad454,903
- 1225 Sadiqabad454,465
- 1234 Haripur451,578
- 1289 Daska433,772
- 1333 Raiwind421,524
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 Hafizabad 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 Hafizabad 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