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Shabqadar, 
Pakistan
521,259 people lived in Shabqadar in 2025. It is the 1060th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 29th largest in Pakistan.
Like every city on this site, Shabqadar is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shabqadar grew
For every 10 people in Shabqadar in 1990, there were 97.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 940,787 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Shabqadar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shabqadar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Shabqadar 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, Shabqadar covered 150 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 14.7 times its size, and its people are 7.4 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, 2 lived in Shabqadar, which is 521,259 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 Shabqadar's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1056 Masetjhaba View South Africa522,402
- 1057 Málaga Spain521,854
- 1058 Edinburgh United Kingdom521,784
- 1059 Thiès Senegal521,678
- 1060 Shabqadar521,259
- 1061 Shahkot520,664
- 1062 Liling China520,239
- 1063 Constantine Algeria519,932
- 1064 Latur India519,913
In Pakistan, 2025
- 890 Kasur609,468
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan572,505
- 959 Jhang571,359
- 1036 Swabi535,083
- 1060 Shabqadar521,259
- 1061 Shahkot520,664
- 1094 Kohat506,145
- 1097 Mansehra503,920
- 1148 Yar Hussain483,239
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Shabqadar are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Shabqadar 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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