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Burewala, 
Pakistan
354,057 people lived in Burewala in 2025. It is the 1614th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 50th largest in Pakistan.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Burewala's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Burewala grew
Count 10 people in Burewala in 1975 and the same count gives 46.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 487,640 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Burewala through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Burewala in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 323 cities in Pakistan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Karachi. The ringed dot in colour is Burewala; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Burewala covered 53 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.9 km² of it. That is 25 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 4.7 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 Burewala, which is 354,057 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Burewala. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1610 Anápolis Brazil354,576
- 1611 Yongzhou China354,335
- 1612 Luhansk Ukraine354,296
- 1613 Lili China354,151
- 1614 Burewala354,057
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat Egypt354,037
- 1616 Bilbeis Egypt353,541
- 1617 Haifeng China353,473
- 1618 Oak Ridge United States353,212
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1507 Mirpur Khas376,343
- 1524 Pakpattan374,389
- 1540 Muridke370,563
- 1593 Chiniot357,181
- 1614 Burewala354,057
- 1641 Narowal348,144
- 1680 Gojra340,108
- 1681 Wazirabad340,058
- 1695 Mandi Bahauddin337,161
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 Burewala 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 Burewala 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