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Hyderabad, 
Pakistan
2,863,633 people lived in Hyderabad in 2025. It is the 174th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th 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 Hyderabad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hyderabad grew
For every 10 people in Hyderabad in 1975, there were 32.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 3.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Hyderabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hyderabad in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Pakistan and its 323 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Karachi). Hyderabad is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Hyderabad covered 144 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 3.2 times as many.
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 100 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Hyderabad, which is 2.9 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Pakistan, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Hyderabad's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 170 Miami United States2,912,486
- 171 Fuzhou China2,910,985
- 172 Pyongyang North Korea2,901,588
- 173 Tamluk India2,894,484
- 174 Hyderabad2,863,633
- 175 Guatemala City Guatemala2,837,708
- 176 Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo2,832,853
- 177 Tasikmalaya Indonesia2,827,255
- 178 Dalian China2,796,248
In Pakistan, 2025
- 88 Islāmābād4,860,084
- 134 Peshawar3,554,423
- 159 Gujranwala3,121,271
- 165 Multan2,956,642
- 174 Hyderabad2,863,633
- 263 Sialkot1,907,978
- 383 Mardan1,330,031
- 452 Sargodha1,142,723
- 497 Quetta1,025,211
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 Hyderabad 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 Hyderabad 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