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Hafizabad — UN urban centre

454,903

Hafizabad: 454,903 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,223 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7901; 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: 32.0706, 73.6886. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975123,410Estimate
1980135,887Estimate
1985157,949Estimate
1990179,170Estimate
1995229,584Estimate
2000274,359Estimate
2005315,132Estimate
2010367,655Estimate
2015402,213Estimate
2020411,571Estimate
2025454,903Estimate
2030497,756Projection
2035552,104Projection
2040621,480Projection
2045668,284Projection
2050729,701Projection

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