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Toba Tek Singh, 
Pakistan
222,349 people lived in Toba Tek Singh in 2025. It is the 2657th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 79th 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 Toba Tek Singh's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Toba Tek Singh grew
Where Toba Tek Singh had 10 people in 1985, it had 39.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 366,865 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 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Toba Tek Singh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Toba Tek Singh in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
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 Toba Tek Singh; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Toba Tek Singh covered 36 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.9 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 4 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, 1 lived in Toba Tek Singh, which is 222,349 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 Toba Tek Singh; 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
- 2647 Mongo Chad223,205
- 2648 Ahmedpur East223,056
- 2649 Buea Cameroon222,996
- 2652 Sambrial222,828
- 2657 Toba Tek Singh222,349
- 2661 Hossana Ethiopia221,895
- 2662 Sahebganj India221,858
- 2663 Mzuzu Malawi221,840
- 2670 Charlotte United States221,000
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2598 Bahawalnagar226,415
- 2618 Samundri225,170
- 2648 Ahmedpur East223,056
- 2652 Sambrial222,828
- 2657 Toba Tek Singh222,349
- 2762 Arifwala214,409
- 2788 Inayat Killi212,640
- 2843 Depalpur209,417
- 2902 Havelian Cantonment205,608
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 Toba Tek Singh are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Toba Tek Singh 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