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Shikarpur, 
Pakistan
285,859 people lived in Shikarpur in 2025. It is the 2037th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 62nd 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 Shikarpur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shikarpur grew
Where Shikarpur had 10 people in 1975, it had 34 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 359,897 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Shikarpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shikarpur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 323 cities in Pakistan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Karachi. The ringed dot in colour is Shikarpur; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Shikarpur covered 17 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.1 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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 Shikarpur, which is 285,859 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 Shikarpur's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2032 Ashdod Israel286,310
- 2033 Jianpur India286,148
- 2034 Osmaniye Türkiye286,108
- 2036 Gondia India285,870
- 2037 Shikarpur285,859
- 2039 Modiin-Maccabim-Reut Israel285,763
- 2040 La Ceiba Honduras285,756
- 2042 Tacloban Philippines285,095
- 2046 Zakiganj India284,125
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1906 Khanewal300,722
- 1970 Khanpur294,821
- 1984 Hazro293,506
- 2025 Timergara287,866
- 2037 Shikarpur285,859
- 2120 Vehari273,823
- 2161 Dadu269,400
- 2171 Muzaffarabad268,448
- 2224 Kharian262,272
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 Shikarpur 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 Shikarpur 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