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Muzaffargarh, 
Pakistan
384,838 people lived in Muzaffargarh in 2025. It is the 1479th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 45th 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 Muzaffargarh grew
Where Muzaffargarh had 10 people in 1975, it had 23.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 613,236 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
Muzaffargarh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Muzaffargarh 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 Muzaffargarh; 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, Muzaffargarh covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.9 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.6 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Muzaffargarh, which is 384,838 people.
How to read this: shrink Pakistan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Muzaffargarh; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1475 Pittsburgh United States385,498
- 1476 Yongkang China385,247
- 1477 Fuqing China385,081
- 1478 Gdansk Poland384,985
- 1479 Muzaffargarh384,838
- 1480 Haicheng China383,983
- 1481 Caxias do Sul Brazil383,774
- 1482 Tongling China383,739
- 1483 Eluru India383,068
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1360 Charsadda413,686
- 1402 Joharabad403,179
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan401,839
- 1456 Takht Bhai390,608
- 1479 Muzaffargarh384,838
- 1507 Mirpur Khas376,343
- 1524 Pakpattan374,389
- 1540 Muridke370,563
- 1593 Chiniot357,181
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 Muzaffargarh 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 Muzaffargarh 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