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Sakhakot, 
Pakistan
201,598 people lived in Sakhakot in 2025. It is the 2957th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 88th 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 Sakhakot's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sakhakot grew
Count 10 people in Sakhakot in 2005 and the same count gives 38.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 486,173 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Sakhakot through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sakhakot in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 323 cities in Pakistan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Karachi. The ringed dot in colour is Sakhakot; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Sakhakot covered 64 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.9 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 72%.
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 Sakhakot, which is 201,598 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 Sakhakot; 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
- 2927 Muktagacha Bangladesh203,965
- 2933 Duekoue Côte d’Ivoire203,323
- 2940 Bajil Yemen202,715
- 2948 Supaul India202,024
- 2957 Sakhakot201,598
- 2959 Iringa Tanzania201,525
- 2964 Pasrur201,450
- 2970 Narayanpur Bangladesh201,100
- 2971 Afikpo Nigeria201,084
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2788 Inayat Killi212,640
- 2843 Depalpur209,417
- 2902 Havelian Cantonment205,608
- 2922 Batkhela204,156
- 2957 Sakhakot201,598
- 2964 Pasrur201,450
- 3039 Mian Channu196,976
- 3042 Dina196,799
- 3043 Bhalwal196,792
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 Sakhakot are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Sakhakot 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