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Shahkot, 
Pakistan
520,664 people lived in Shahkot in 2025. It is the 1061st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 30th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Shahkot 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 Shahkot grew
For every 10 people in Shahkot in 1995, there were 44.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2045 and 2050. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, 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
Shahkot through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shahkot 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). Shahkot 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, Shahkot covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 6 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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 Shahkot, which is 520,664 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Shahkot. 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
- 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
- 1065 Liaocheng China519,411
In Pakistan, 2025
- 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
- 1213 Jhelum457,793
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 Shahkot are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Shahkot 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