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Thatta, 
Pakistan
154,717 people lived in Thatta in 2025. It is the 3917th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 123rd largest in Pakistan.
Like every city on this site, Thatta is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Thatta grew
Where Thatta had 10 people in 1995, it had 27.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 527,869 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, 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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Thatta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Thatta 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). Thatta 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, Thatta covered 19 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.7 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 93%, and its people have grown by 28%.
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 Thatta, which is 154,717 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 Thatta's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3886 Musanze Rwanda155,984
- 3895 Katoro Tanzania155,625
- 3914 Sodo Ethiopia154,912
- 3916 Sohar Oman154,765
- 3917 Thatta154,717
- 3995 Likuni Malawi151,695
- 4014 Tanjung Pinang Indonesia150,872
- 4034 Mawza` Yemen150,293
- 4052 Tshimbulu Democratic Republic of the Congo149,595
In Pakistan, 2025
- 3513 Gujar Khan172,682
- 3622 Battagram166,956
- 3652 Matta165,993
- 3721 Samarbagh162,603
- 3917 Thatta154,717
- 4118 Baffa147,524
- 4131 Garhi Habibullah147,308
- 4637 Alipur131,848
- 4985 Khar Bajaur122,854
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 Thatta are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Thatta 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