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Sukkur, 
Pakistan
812,885 people lived in Sukkur in 2025. It is the 650th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th 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 Sukkur grew
Count 10 people in Sukkur in 1975 and the same count gives 36.2 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.
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
Sukkur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sukkur 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). Sukkur 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, Sukkur covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.3 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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, 3 lived in Sukkur, which is 812,885 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Sukkur. 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
- 646 Munger India814,325
- 647 Nasiriyah Iraq813,799
- 648 Al Mushahidah Iraq813,506
- 649 Mit Ghamr Egypt812,947
- 650 Sukkur812,885
- 651 Barquisimeto Venezuela812,384
- 652 Quzhou China811,735
- 653 Detroit United States809,894
- 654 Goma Democratic Republic of the Congo809,601
In Pakistan, 2025
- 498 Mingora1,024,813
- 600 Nowshera872,172
- 613 Abbottabad851,819
- 619 Gujrat846,968
- 650 Sukkur812,885
- 684 Bahawalpur776,611
- 706 Taxila757,451
- 733 Sahiwal730,463
- 777 Rahim Yar Khan693,373
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Sukkur 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 Sukkur 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