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Jacobabad, 
Pakistan
308,137 people lived in Jacobabad in 2025. It is the 1867th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 57th largest in Pakistan.
Like every city on this site, Jacobabad is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jacobabad grew
Count 10 people in Jacobabad in 1980 and the same count gives 46.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 390,752 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Jacobabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jacobabad 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). Jacobabad 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, Jacobabad covered 27 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.7 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 93%.
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 Jacobabad, which is 308,137 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Jacobabad. 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
- 1863 Madhepura India309,065
- 1864 Nagasaki Japan308,986
- 1865 Cangnan China308,925
- 1866 Qoqand Uzbekistan308,393
- 1867 Jacobabad308,137
- 1868 Tonghua China308,016
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela307,794
- 1870 Al-Shatrah Iraq307,652
- 1871 Tapachula Mexico307,334
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1681 Wazirabad340,058
- 1695 Mandi Bahauddin337,161
- 1711 Jaranwala335,463
- 1785 Nawabshah321,838
- 1867 Jacobabad308,137
- 1906 Khanewal300,722
- 1970 Khanpur294,821
- 1984 Hazro293,506
- 2025 Timergara287,866
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 Jacobabad are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Jacobabad 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