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Chakwal, 
Pakistan
249,801 people lived in Chakwal in 2025. It is the 2337th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 68th 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 Chakwal's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Chakwal grew
For every 10 people in Chakwal in 1985, there were 45.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 351,460 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Chakwal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chakwal in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Chakwal 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, Chakwal covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.4 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5.8 times its size, and its people are 4.6 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 Chakwal, which is 249,801 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 Chakwal; 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
- 2331 Victoria Canada250,244
- 2334 Rehovot Israel249,925
- 2335 Laredo United States249,861
- 2336 Cutler Bay United States249,822
- 2337 Chakwal249,801
- 2338 Pattoki249,646
- 2342 Kenema Sierra Leone249,485
- 2344 Edgecliff Village United States249,260
- 2347 Balrampur India248,830
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2161 Dadu269,400
- 2171 Muzaffarabad268,448
- 2224 Kharian262,272
- 2290 Shakar Garh254,655
- 2337 Chakwal249,801
- 2338 Pattoki249,646
- 2381 Khairpur244,838
- 2427 Attock241,714
- 2432 Mianwali241,207
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 Chakwal are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Chakwal 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