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Bahawalnagar, 
Pakistan
226,415 people lived in Bahawalnagar in 2025. It is the 2598th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 75th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Bahawalnagar governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bahawalnagar grew
Where Bahawalnagar had 10 people in 1975, it had 25.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 345,548 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Bahawalnagar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bahawalnagar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Pakistan and its 323 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Karachi). Bahawalnagar is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bahawalnagar covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.1 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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 Bahawalnagar, which is 226,415 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Pakistan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bahawalnagar's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2583 Petrozavodsk Russia227,487
- 2586 Hihya Egypt227,360
- 2589 Kazipur Bangladesh227,234
- 2592 Charikar Afghanistan227,054
- 2598 Bahawalnagar226,415
- 2599 Arua Uganda226,390
- 2600 Maghagha Egypt226,358
- 2605 Sevastopol Ukraine226,028
- 2609 MohammadAbad-e Rigan Iran225,871
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2427 Attock241,714
- 2432 Mianwali241,207
- 2544 Hasilpur230,987
- 2576 Lalamusa228,248
- 2598 Bahawalnagar226,415
- 2618 Samundri225,170
- 2648 Ahmedpur East223,056
- 2652 Sambrial222,828
- 2657 Toba Tek Singh222,349
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 Bahawalnagar 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 Bahawalnagar 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