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Samundri, 
Pakistan
225,170 people lived in Samundri in 2025. It is the 2618th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 76th 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 Samundri's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Samundri grew
Count 10 people in Samundri in 1985 and the same count gives 39.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 429,306 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 1985, 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
Samundri through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Samundri 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). Samundri 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, Samundri covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.3 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 3.9 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Samundri, which is 225,170 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Samundri. 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
- 2610 Harar Ethiopia225,677
- 2612 Naqamte Ethiopia225,503
- 2615 Al Qusiya Egypt225,243
- 2617 Maharajganj India225,197
- 2618 Samundri225,170
- 2624 Ile Oluji Nigeria224,781
- 2627 Manfalut Egypt224,667
- 2630 Ramgarh India224,417
- 2632 Navoiy Uzbekistan224,363
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2432 Mianwali241,207
- 2544 Hasilpur230,987
- 2576 Lalamusa228,248
- 2598 Bahawalnagar226,415
- 2618 Samundri225,170
- 2648 Ahmedpur East223,056
- 2652 Sambrial222,828
- 2657 Toba Tek Singh222,349
- 2762 Arifwala214,409
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 Samundri are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Samundri 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