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Samarbagh, 
Pakistan
162,603 people lived in Samarbagh in 2025. It is the 3721st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 116th 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 Samarbagh's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Samarbagh grew
For every 10 people in Samarbagh in 2005, there were 14.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 412,238 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. 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: 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
Samarbagh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Samarbagh 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 Samarbagh; 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, Samarbagh covered 60 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.1 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 32%.
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 Samarbagh, which is 162,603 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Pakistan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Samarbagh's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3695 Durame Ethiopia163,896
- 3696 Cazombo Angola163,870
- 3712 Delduar Bangladesh163,064
- 3713 Kawm Ombo Egypt162,984
- 3721 Samarbagh162,603
- 3726 Mihtarlam Afghanistan162,346
- 3740 Fenchuganj Bangladesh161,718
- 3741 N'dalatando Angola161,700
- 3768 Kahama Tanzania160,713
In Pakistan, 2025
- 3434 Layyah176,125
- 3513 Gujar Khan172,682
- 3622 Battagram166,956
- 3652 Matta165,993
- 3721 Samarbagh162,603
- 3917 Thatta154,717
- 4118 Baffa147,524
- 4131 Garhi Habibullah147,308
- 4637 Alipur131,848
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 Samarbagh 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 Samarbagh 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