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Sargodha, 
Pakistan
1,142,723 people lived in Sargodha in 2025. It is the 452nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Pakistan.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sargodha grew
Count 10 people in Sargodha in 1975 and the same count gives 30 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Sargodha through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sargodha in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sargodha 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, Sargodha covered 80 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 3 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, 4 lived in Sargodha, which is 1.1 million 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 Sargodha; 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
- 448 Sincan Türkiye1,149,921
- 449 Yekaterinburg Russia1,148,237
- 450 Bhubaneshwar India1,146,434
- 451 Baltimore United States1,145,219
- 452 Sargodha1,142,723
- 453 Dublin Ireland1,142,650
- 454 Đà Nẵng Vietnam1,142,621
- 455 Huizhou China1,137,670
- 456 Kazan Russia1,132,941
In Pakistan, 2025
- 165 Multan2,956,642
- 174 Hyderabad2,863,633
- 263 Sialkot1,907,978
- 383 Mardan1,330,031
- 452 Sargodha1,142,723
- 497 Quetta1,025,211
- 498 Mingora1,024,813
- 600 Nowshera872,172
- 613 Abbottabad851,819
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 Sargodha 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 Sargodha 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 →
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