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Shujaabad, 
Pakistan
196,255 people lived in Shujaabad in 2025. It is the 3049th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 95th 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 Shujaabad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shujaabad grew
Where Shujaabad had 10 people in 1975, it had 24.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 488,149 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Shujaabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shujaabad 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). Shujaabad 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, Shujaabad covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.5 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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, 1 lived in Shujaabad, which is 196,255 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 Shujaabad; 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
- 3036 Dilolo Democratic Republic of the Congo197,075
- 3039 Mian Channu196,976
- 3042 Dina196,799
- 3043 Bhalwal196,792
- 3049 Shujaabad196,255
- 3053 Bayt Sa`dan Yemen196,086
- 3057 Kisantu Democratic Republic of the Congo195,949
- 3066 Củ Chi Vietnam195,626
- 3071 Kamalia195,472
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2964 Pasrur201,450
- 3039 Mian Channu196,976
- 3042 Dina196,799
- 3043 Bhalwal196,792
- 3049 Shujaabad196,255
- 3071 Kamalia195,472
- 3072 Kot Addu195,384
- 3202 Nankana Sahib188,474
- 3313 Kotli181,837
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 Shujaabad 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 Shujaabad 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