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Bhalwal, 
Pakistan
196,792 people lived in Bhalwal in 2025. It is the 3043rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 94th 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 Bhalwal grew
Where Bhalwal had 10 people in 1975, it had 26.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 300,169 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Bhalwal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bhalwal in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bhalwal 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, Bhalwal covered 21 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.7 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 2.6 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Bhalwal, which is 196,792 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 Bhalwal's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3035 Gulu Uganda197,090
- 3036 Dilolo Democratic Republic of the Congo197,075
- 3039 Mian Channu196,976
- 3042 Dina196,799
- 3043 Bhalwal196,792
- 3049 Shujaabad196,255
- 3053 Bayt Sa`dan Yemen196,086
- 3057 Kisantu Democratic Republic of the Congo195,949
- 3066 Củ Chi Vietnam195,626
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2957 Sakhakot201,598
- 2964 Pasrur201,450
- 3039 Mian Channu196,976
- 3042 Dina196,799
- 3043 Bhalwal196,792
- 3049 Shujaabad196,255
- 3071 Kamalia195,472
- 3072 Kot Addu195,384
- 3202 Nankana Sahib188,474
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bhalwal 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 Bhalwal 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