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Pakpattan, 
Pakistan
374,389 people lived in Pakpattan in 2025. It is the 1524th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 47th 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 Pakpattan grew
For every 10 people in Pakpattan in 1975, there were 29.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 530,297 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: 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
Pakpattan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pakpattan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Pakistan and its 323 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Karachi). Pakpattan is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Pakpattan covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.8 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people are 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, 1 lived in Pakpattan, which is 374,389 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 Pakpattan; 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
- 1520 Hama Syria374,643
- 1521 Numazu Japan374,507
- 1522 Hrodna Belarus374,464
- 1523 Debandi India374,423
- 1524 Pakpattan374,389
- 1525 Wonsan North Korea373,596
- 1526 Valletta Malta373,474
- 1527 Kuantan Malaysia373,353
- 1528 Junagadh India373,265
In Pakistan, 2025
- 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
- 1614 Burewala354,057
- 1641 Narowal348,144
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 Pakpattan 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 Pakpattan 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