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Gujar Khan, 
Pakistan
172,682 people lived in Gujar Khan in 2025. It is the 3513th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 108th 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 Gujar Khan grew
Count 10 people in Gujar Khan in 1985 and the same count gives 30.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 322,144 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. 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: 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
Gujar Khan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gujar Khan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Gujar Khan 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, Gujar Khan covered 17 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.5 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 Gujar Khan, which is 172,682 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 Gujar Khan; 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
- 3451 Pingtung City Taiwan175,377
- 3459 Kitenge Democratic Republic of the Congo174,943
- 3485 Bukoba Tanzania173,889
- 3495 Ebolowa Cameroon173,565
- 3513 Gujar Khan172,682
- 3525 Luau Angola172,177
- 3528 Anlong Veng Cambodia172,053
- 3531 Zhanaozen Kazakhstan171,827
- 3538 Beanibazar Bangladesh171,417
In Pakistan, 2025
- 3202 Nankana Sahib188,474
- 3313 Kotli181,837
- 3400 Oghi177,887
- 3434 Layyah176,125
- 3513 Gujar Khan172,682
- 3622 Battagram166,956
- 3652 Matta165,993
- 3721 Samarbagh162,603
- 3917 Thatta154,717
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Gujar Khan 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 Gujar Khan 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