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Paardekraal Ext 2, 
South Africa
119,589 people lived in Paardekraal Ext 2 in 2025. It is the 5137th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 44th largest in South Africa.
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 Paardekraal Ext 2'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 Paardekraal Ext 2 grew
Where Paardekraal Ext 2 had 10 people in 2000, it had 21.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 306,205 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Paardekraal Ext 2 through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Paardekraal Ext 2 in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
South Africa · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Paardekraal Ext 2 is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of South Africa in 2025, 95 in all, led by Johannesburg, 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, Paardekraal Ext 2 covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.3 km² of it. That is 53 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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 South Africa
Its share of South Africa
Of every 1,000 people in South Africa in 2025, 2 lived in Paardekraal Ext 2, which is 119,589 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in South Africa, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Paardekraal Ext 2's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 5021 Phulidumar India122,053
- 5067 Yirga Cheffe Ethiopia121,109
- 5114 Chucko Ethiopia120,065
- 5136 Vihiga Kenya119,644
- 5137 Paardekraal Ext 2119,589
- 5167 Kafr Ibrash Egypt118,945
- 5229 Lal Afghanistan117,617
- 5258 Golbahar Afghanistan116,780
- 5371 Imehejek South Sudan114,546
In South Africa, 2025
- 2445 Somerset West239,943
- 2675 Rustenburg220,723
- 2715 Botshabelo-N218,046
- 2827 Ennerdale210,428
- 5137 Paardekraal Ext 2119,589
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 Paardekraal Ext 2 are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Paardekraal Ext 2 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