Takht Bhai, Pakistan

Count 10 people in Takht Bhai in 1990 and the same count gives 74.5 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 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 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.

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.

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 Takht Bhai; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Takht Bhai covered 97 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.5 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 7.9 times its size, and its people are 4.3 times as many.

How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.

Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 2 lived in Takht Bhai, which is 390,608 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 Takht Bhai; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 1452 Nadiad India391,934
2. 1453 Juba South Sudan391,311
3. 1454 Zheba China390,709
4. 1455 Cardiff United Kingdom390,692
5. 1456 Takht Bhai390,608
6. 1457 Kassala Sudan390,525
7. 1458 Wenling China390,282
8. 1459 Soyo Angola389,945
9. 1460 Rangkasbitung Indonesia389,934

In Pakistan, 2025

1. 1335 Kamoke421,152
2. 1360 Charsadda413,686
3. 1402 Joharabad403,179
4. 1407 Dera Ismail Khan401,839
5. 1456 Takht Bhai390,608
6. 1479 Muzaffargarh384,838
7. 1507 Mirpur Khas376,343
8. 1524 Pakpattan374,389
9. 1540 Muridke370,563

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.

Pakistan · All the world's cities

The figures for Takht Bhai are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Takht Bhai 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 →

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