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Pokhariya, 
Nepal
242,966 people lived in Pokhariya in 2025. It is the 2409th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Nepal.
Like every city on this site, Pokhariya is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Pokhariya grew
For every 10 people in Pokhariya in 1975, there were 48.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 424,005 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Pokhariya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pokhariya in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nepal · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nepal and its 19 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kathmandu). Pokhariya 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, Pokhariya covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.4 km² of it. That is 6 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres.
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 Nepal
Its share of Nepal
Of every 1,000 people in Nepal in 2025, 8 lived in Pokhariya, which is 242,966 people.
How to read this: shrink Nepal to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Pokhariya; 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
- 2404 Kamituga Democratic Republic of the Congo243,261
- 2405 Ho Ghana243,211
- 2407 Quiha Ethiopia243,110
- 2408 Dapaong Togo242,985
- 2409 Pokhariya242,966
- 2410 Kambove Democratic Republic of the Congo242,939
- 2412 Poltava Ukraine242,753
- 2413 Gayara Iraq242,690
- 2414 Khajauli India242,567
In Nepal, 2025
- 150 Kathmandu3,231,516
- 1420 Biratnagar398,453
- 1941 Pokhara297,320
- 2409 Pokhariya242,966
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Pokhariya 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 Pokhariya 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 →
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