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Hazro, 
Pakistan
293,506 people lived in Hazro in 2025. It is the 1984th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 60th largest in Pakistan.
Like every city on this site, Hazro is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hazro grew
Where Hazro had 10 people in 2000, it had 19.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 478,591 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. 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: 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
Hazro through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hazro 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 Hazro; 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, Hazro covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people have grown by 91%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Hazro, which is 293,506 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 Hazro; 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
- 1980 Shahrisabz Uzbekistan293,849
- 1981 Bohicon Benin293,833
- 1982 San-Pédro Côte d’Ivoire293,698
- 1983 Lausanne Switzerland293,509
- 1984 Hazro293,506
- 1985 Kasaji Democratic Republic of the Congo292,523
- 1986 Kanyamazane South Africa292,211
- 1987 Matara Sri Lanka292,019
- 1988 Bhadrak India291,997
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1785 Nawabshah321,838
- 1867 Jacobabad308,137
- 1906 Khanewal300,722
- 1970 Khanpur294,821
- 1984 Hazro293,506
- 2025 Timergara287,866
- 2037 Shikarpur285,859
- 2120 Vehari273,823
- 2161 Dadu269,400
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 Hazro 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 Hazro 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