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Okara, 
Pakistan
683,747 people lived in Okara in 2025. It is the 787th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd 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 Okara grew
Where Okara had 10 people in 1975, it had 36.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 954,540 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Okara through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Okara 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 Okara; 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, Okara covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.5 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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, 3 lived in Okara, which is 683,747 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Okara. 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
- 783 Zurich Switzerland689,657
- 784 Zhoukou China689,599
- 785 Fresno United States685,330
- 786 Beni Suef Egypt684,414
- 787 Okara683,747
- 788 Akola India683,391
- 789 Vapi India682,459
- 790 Florianópolis Brazil682,065
- 791 Longgang China681,306
In Pakistan, 2025
- 684 Bahawalpur776,611
- 706 Taxila757,451
- 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
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 Okara 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 Okara 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