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Chiniot, 
Pakistan
357,181 people lived in Chiniot in 2025. It is the 1593rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 49th 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 Chiniot grew
For every 10 people in Chiniot in 1975, there were 24.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 516,327 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Chiniot through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chiniot 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). Chiniot 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, Chiniot covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.3 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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 Chiniot, which is 357,181 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 Chiniot's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1589 Pilibhit India358,059
- 1590 Piracicaba Brazil357,844
- 1591 Korhogo Côte d’Ivoire357,761
- 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain357,753
- 1593 Chiniot357,181
- 1594 Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas Ecuador356,829
- 1595 Aizawl India356,620
- 1596 Vladikavkaz Russia356,422
- 1597 Memphis United States356,215
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1479 Muzaffargarh384,838
- 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
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 Chiniot 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 Chiniot 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