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Joharabad, 
Pakistan
403,179 people lived in Joharabad in 2025. It is the 1402nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 42nd 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 Joharabad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Joharabad grew
Count 10 people in Joharabad in 1975 and the same count gives 49.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 572,090 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: 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
Joharabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Joharabad in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Joharabad is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Pakistan in 2025, 323 in all, led by Karachi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Joharabad covered 51 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.0 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.4 times its size, and its people are 5 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 Joharabad, which is 403,179 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Joharabad. 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
- 1398 Sariwon North Korea404,672
- 1399 Point Cook Australia404,501
- 1400 Wad Madanī Sudan403,988
- 1401 Asaba Nigeria403,859
- 1402 Joharabad403,179
- 1403 Tumakuru India403,109
- 1404 Bharatpur India402,987
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh Egypt402,716
- 1406 Palakkad India401,965
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1289 Daska433,772
- 1333 Raiwind421,524
- 1335 Kamoke421,152
- 1360 Charsadda413,686
- 1402 Joharabad403,179
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan401,839
- 1456 Takht Bhai390,608
- 1479 Muzaffargarh384,838
- 1507 Mirpur Khas376,343
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Joharabad 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 Joharabad 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