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Shakar Garh, 
Pakistan
254,655 people lived in Shakar Garh in 2025. It is the 2290th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 67th 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 Shakar Garh grew
Count 10 people in Shakar Garh in 1975 and the same count gives 50.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 416,414 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Shakar Garh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shakar Garh 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). Shakar Garh 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, Shakar Garh covered 21 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.2 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 3.5 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Shakar Garh, which is 254,655 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Shakar Garh. 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
- 2282 Wakayama Japan255,782
- 2283 Punto Fijo Venezuela255,662
- 2288 Skikda Algeria255,379
- 2289 Arkhangelsk Russia254,797
- 2290 Shakar Garh254,655
- 2293 Gaborone Botswana254,517
- 2294 Pathein Myanmar253,953
- 2295 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina253,857
- 2299 Borigaon India253,566
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2120 Vehari273,823
- 2161 Dadu269,400
- 2171 Muzaffarabad268,448
- 2224 Kharian262,272
- 2290 Shakar Garh254,655
- 2337 Chakwal249,801
- 2338 Pattoki249,646
- 2381 Khairpur244,838
- 2427 Attock241,714
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 Shakar Garh 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 Shakar Garh 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