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Bahawalpur, 
Pakistan
776,611 people lived in Bahawalpur in 2025. It is the 684th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th 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 Bahawalpur grew
For every 10 people in Bahawalpur in 1975, there were 34 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2040 and 2045.
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
Bahawalpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bahawalpur 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). Bahawalpur 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, Bahawalpur covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 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 3.5 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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, 3 lived in Bahawalpur, which is 776,611 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 Bahawalpur's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 680 Jalgaon India781,486
- 681 Muscat Oman780,545
- 682 Pingdingshan China779,154
- 683 Rourkela India776,631
- 684 Bahawalpur776,611
- 685 Kharagpur India776,133
- 686 Yueyang China775,434
- 687 Changshu China774,010
- 688 Evaton South Africa773,229
In Pakistan, 2025
- 600 Nowshera872,172
- 613 Abbottabad851,819
- 619 Gujrat846,968
- 650 Sukkur812,885
- 684 Bahawalpur776,611
- 706 Taxila757,451
- 733 Sahiwal730,463
- 777 Rahim Yar Khan693,373
- 787 Okara683,747
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 Bahawalpur 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 Bahawalpur 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