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Sadiqabad, 
Pakistan
454,465 people lived in Sadiqabad in 2025. It is the 1225th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th largest in Pakistan.
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 Sadiqabad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sadiqabad grew
Where Sadiqabad had 10 people in 1975, it had 77.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 728,834 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: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Sadiqabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sadiqabad 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). Sadiqabad 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, Sadiqabad covered 48 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.8 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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 Sadiqabad, which is 454,465 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Sadiqabad. 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
- 1221 Raiganj India456,239
- 1222 Vladivostok Russia455,141
- 1223 Hafizabad454,903
- 1224 Butembo Democratic Republic of the Congo454,857
- 1225 Sadiqabad454,465
- 1226 Surrey Canada454,230
- 1227 Nantes France453,523
- 1228 Chimoio Mozambique453,521
- 1229 Catania Italy453,376
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1097 Mansehra503,920
- 1148 Yar Hussain483,239
- 1213 Jhelum457,793
- 1223 Hafizabad454,903
- 1225 Sadiqabad454,465
- 1234 Haripur451,578
- 1289 Daska433,772
- 1333 Raiwind421,524
- 1335 Kamoke421,152
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 Sadiqabad 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 Sadiqabad 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