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Shorkot Cantonment Junction — UN urban centre

54,948

Shorkot Cantonment Junction: 54,948 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,201 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7557; territory: Pakistan (PAK). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: 30.7924, 72.2505. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199050,595Estimate
199556,201Estimate
200061,043Estimate
200563,756Estimate
201063,662Estimate
201563,225Estimate
202050,031Estimate
202554,948Estimate
203060,177Projection
203574,075Projection
204081,123Projection
204595,561Projection
2050106,981Projection

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