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Sambrial, 
Pakistan
222,828 people lived in Sambrial in 2025. It is the 2652nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 78th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Sambrial 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 Sambrial grew
For every 10 people in Sambrial in 1980, there were 43 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 423,862 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 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Sambrial through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sambrial in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sambrial 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, Sambrial covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.6 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 2.4 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Sambrial, which is 222,828 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 Sambrial's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2641 Songea Tanzania223,567
- 2647 Mongo Chad223,205
- 2648 Ahmedpur East223,056
- 2649 Buea Cameroon222,996
- 2652 Sambrial222,828
- 2657 Toba Tek Singh222,349
- 2661 Hossana Ethiopia221,895
- 2662 Sahebganj India221,858
- 2663 Mzuzu Malawi221,840
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2576 Lalamusa228,248
- 2598 Bahawalnagar226,415
- 2618 Samundri225,170
- 2648 Ahmedpur East223,056
- 2652 Sambrial222,828
- 2657 Toba Tek Singh222,349
- 2762 Arifwala214,409
- 2788 Inayat Killi212,640
- 2843 Depalpur209,417
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 Sambrial 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 Sambrial 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