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Mansehra, 
Pakistan
503,920 people lived in Mansehra in 2025. It is the 1097th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 32nd 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 Mansehra's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mansehra grew
Count 10 people in Mansehra in 1975 and the same count gives 60.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 914,325 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: 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
Mansehra through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mansehra in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mansehra 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, Mansehra covered 86 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 13.4 times its size, and its people are 5.3 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 2 lived in Mansehra, which is 503,920 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Mansehra. 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
- 1093 Kashgar China506,476
- 1094 Kohat506,145
- 1095 Belkuchi Bangladesh505,615
- 1096 Jingjiang China505,098
- 1097 Mansehra503,920
- 1098 Bakersfield United States503,676
- 1099 Nha Trang Vietnam503,051
- 1100 Anqing China503,036
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez Mexico502,534
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1036 Swabi535,083
- 1060 Shabqadar521,259
- 1061 Shahkot520,664
- 1094 Kohat506,145
- 1097 Mansehra503,920
- 1148 Yar Hussain483,239
- 1213 Jhelum457,793
- 1223 Hafizabad454,903
- 1225 Sadiqabad454,465
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 Mansehra 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 Mansehra 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