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Yar Hussain, 
Pakistan
483,239 people lived in Yar Hussain in 2025. It is the 1148th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 33rd 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 Yar Hussain's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yar Hussain grew
Count 10 people in Yar Hussain in 1995 and the same count gives 80.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 862,214 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. 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: 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
Yar Hussain through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yar Hussain 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 Yar Hussain; 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, Yar Hussain covered 97 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 11.8 times its size, and its people are 8 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 2 lived in Yar Hussain, which is 483,239 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 Yar Hussain; 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
- 1144 Cooch Behar India484,313
- 1145 Kagoshima Japan484,164
- 1146 Dire Dawa Ethiopia483,674
- 1147 Huzhou China483,361
- 1148 Yar Hussain483,239
- 1149 Cuenca Ecuador482,272
- 1150 Tahta Egypt482,194
- 1151 At Ta'if Saudi Arabia481,818
- 1152 Villahermosa Mexico481,525
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1060 Shabqadar521,259
- 1061 Shahkot520,664
- 1094 Kohat506,145
- 1097 Mansehra503,920
- 1148 Yar Hussain483,239
- 1213 Jhelum457,793
- 1223 Hafizabad454,903
- 1225 Sadiqabad454,465
- 1234 Haripur451,578
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 Yar Hussain 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 Yar Hussain 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