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Larkana, 
Pakistan
618,408 people lived in Larkana in 2025. It is the 871st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 24th largest in Pakistan.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Larkana grew
Where Larkana had 10 people in 1975, it had 35.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 695,598 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Larkana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Larkana 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 Larkana; 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, Larkana covered 32 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.2 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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, 2 lived in Larkana, which is 618,408 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Pakistan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Larkana's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 867 Xiashan China622,080
- 868 Chiclayo Peru620,622
- 869 Bannu620,328
- 870 Hengshui China618,465
- 871 Larkana618,408
- 872 Malegaon India618,133
- 873 West Palm Beach United States617,035
- 874 Farrukhabad India615,831
- 875 Bristol United Kingdom615,703
In Pakistan, 2025
- 733 Sahiwal730,463
- 777 Rahim Yar Khan693,373
- 787 Okara683,747
- 869 Bannu620,328
- 871 Larkana618,408
- 890 Kasur609,468
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan572,505
- 959 Jhang571,359
- 1036 Swabi535,083
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 Larkana 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 Larkana 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