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Raiwind, 
Pakistan
421,524 people lived in Raiwind in 2025. It is the 1333rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 39th 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 Raiwind grew
For every 10 people in Raiwind in 1980, there were 72.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 929,757 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Raiwind through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Raiwind 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). Raiwind 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, Raiwind covered 64 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 11.1 times its size, and its people are 5.9 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, 2 lived in Raiwind, which is 421,524 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Raiwind. 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
- 1329 Tucson United States422,107
- 1330 Chișinău Moldova422,035
- 1331 Bathinda India421,753
- 1332 Bida Nigeria421,605
- 1333 Raiwind421,524
- 1334 Tete Mozambique421,174
- 1335 Kamoke421,152
- 1336 Navsari India421,121
- 1337 Giridih India420,525
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1223 Hafizabad454,903
- 1225 Sadiqabad454,465
- 1234 Haripur451,578
- 1289 Daska433,772
- 1333 Raiwind421,524
- 1335 Kamoke421,152
- 1360 Charsadda413,686
- 1402 Joharabad403,179
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan401,839
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 Raiwind are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Raiwind 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