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Khar Bajaur, 
Pakistan
122,854 people lived in Khar Bajaur in 2025. It is the 4985th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 154th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Khar Bajaur 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 Khar Bajaur grew
For every 10 people in Khar Bajaur in 2000, there were 22.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 318,592 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. 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: 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
Khar Bajaur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Khar Bajaur 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 Khar Bajaur; 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, Khar Bajaur covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.3 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people have grown by 35%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in Pakistan lived in Khar Bajaur in 2025 — about 1 in 2,083.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4864 Delingat Egypt125,765
- 4901 Hisor Tajikistan125,054
- 4902 Basha Ethiopia124,959
- 4936 Boditi Ethiopia123,992
- 4985 Khar Bajaur122,854
- 5014 Fujieda Japan122,203
- 5021 Phulidumar India122,053
- 5067 Yirga Cheffe Ethiopia121,109
- 5114 Chucko Ethiopia120,065
In Pakistan, 2025
- 3917 Thatta154,717
- 4118 Baffa147,524
- 4131 Garhi Habibullah147,308
- 4637 Alipur131,848
- 4985 Khar Bajaur122,854
- 8155 Harichand76,461
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 Khar Bajaur 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 Khar Bajaur 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