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Rahim Yar Khan, 
Pakistan
693,373 people lived in Rahim Yar Khan in 2025. It is the 777th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Rahim Yar Khan governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Rahim Yar Khan grew
Count 10 people in Rahim Yar Khan in 1975 and the same count gives 138.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2045 and 2050.
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
Rahim Yar Khan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rahim Yar Khan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Rahim Yar Khan is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Pakistan in 2025, 323 in all, led by Karachi, 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, Rahim Yar Khan covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 9.4 times its size, and its people are 7 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, 3 lived in Rahim Yar Khan, which is 693,373 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Rahim Yar Khan. 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
- 773 Hsinchu Taiwan695,677
- 774 Shahjahanpur India694,580
- 775 Kebkabiya Sudan694,415
- 776 Dazhou China693,707
- 777 Rahim Yar Khan693,373
- 778 Panvel India692,036
- 779 Chŏngjin North Korea690,409
- 780 Cheongju-si South Korea690,333
- 781 Cuito Angola689,795
In Pakistan, 2025
- 650 Sukkur812,885
- 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
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 Rahim Yar Khan 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 Rahim Yar Khan 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