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Kharian, 
Pakistan
262,272 people lived in Kharian in 2025. It is the 2224th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 66th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kharian 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 Kharian grew
Where Kharian had 10 people in 1990, it had 38.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 558,977 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Kharian through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kharian 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). Kharian 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, Kharian covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.1 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Kharian, which is 262,272 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Kharian. 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
- 2219 Mubi Nigeria262,651
- 2220 Ulan-Ude Russia262,433
- 2221 Palwal India262,399
- 2222 Urgench Uzbekistan262,377
- 2224 Kharian262,272
- 2226 Ambur India261,614
- 2227 Jinja Uganda261,604
- 2228 Moirabari India261,593
- 2229 Hakodate Japan261,557
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2037 Shikarpur285,859
- 2120 Vehari273,823
- 2161 Dadu269,400
- 2171 Muzaffarabad268,448
- 2224 Kharian262,272
- 2290 Shakar Garh254,655
- 2337 Chakwal249,801
- 2338 Pattoki249,646
- 2381 Khairpur244,838
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 Kharian are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Kharian 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