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Arifwala, 
Pakistan
214,409 people lived in Arifwala in 2025. It is the 2762nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 80th largest in Pakistan.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Arifwala grew
For every 10 people in Arifwala in 1975, there were 41.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 354,667 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Arifwala through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Arifwala in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Arifwala is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Pakistan in 2025, 323 in all, led by Karachi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Arifwala covered 28 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.6 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 times its size, and its people are 4.2 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 Arifwala, which is 214,409 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 Arifwala; 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
- 2737 Asella Ethiopia215,594
- 2743 Elelim Indonesia215,216
- 2746 Manokwari Indonesia214,949
- 2752 Baraut India214,706
- 2762 Arifwala214,409
- 2765 Rutshuru Democratic Republic of the Congo214,158
- 2767 Beersheba Israel214,104
- 2769 Juma Uzbekistan214,035
- 2774 Mulia Indonesia213,704
In Pakistan, 2025
- 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
- 2922 Batkhela204,156
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Arifwala are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Arifwala 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