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Taxila, 
Pakistan
757,451 people lived in Taxila in 2025. It is the 706th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Taxila governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Taxila grew
For every 10 people in Taxila in 1975, there were 134.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Taxila through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Taxila in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Taxila is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Pakistan in 2025, 323 in all, led by Karachi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Taxila covered 154 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 26 times its size, and its people are 9 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 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 3 lived in Taxila, which is 757,451 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 Taxila; 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
- 702 Mudanjiang China758,800
- 703 Agartala India758,699
- 704 Kalemie Democratic Republic of the Congo758,379
- 705 Yola Nigeria758,153
- 706 Taxila757,451
- 707 Xinyu China756,365
- 708 Bonn Germany756,044
- 709 Rajshahi Bangladesh755,347
- 710 Malabo Equatorial Guinea754,834
In Pakistan, 2025
- 613 Abbottabad851,819
- 619 Gujrat846,968
- 650 Sukkur812,885
- 684 Bahawalpur776,611
- 706 Taxila757,451
- 733 Sahiwal730,463
- 777 Rahim Yar Khan693,373
- 787 Okara683,747
- 869 Bannu620,328
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 Taxila 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 Taxila 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