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Gujranwala, 
Pakistan
3,121,271 people lived in Gujranwala in 2025. It is the 159th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th 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 Gujranwala grew
For every 10 people in Gujranwala in 1975, there were 40.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 4.2 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Gujranwala through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gujranwala 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 Gujranwala; 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, Gujranwala covered 232 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 65 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 4.1 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 100 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Gujranwala, which is 3.1 million people.
How to read this: shrink Pakistan to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Gujranwala; 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
- 155 San Francisco United States3,163,486
- 156 Kalyan-Dombivli India3,163,424
- 157 Guayaquil Ecuador3,157,825
- 158 Salvador Brazil3,135,157
- 159 Gujranwala3,121,271
- 160 Athens Greece3,101,979
- 161 Ningbo China3,094,833
- 162 Kollam India3,074,562
- 163 Cebu City Philippines3,044,564
In Pakistan, 2025
- 17 Lahore15,156,430
- 73 Faisalabad5,566,382
- 88 Islāmābād4,860,084
- 134 Peshawar3,554,423
- 159 Gujranwala3,121,271
- 165 Multan2,956,642
- 174 Hyderabad2,863,633
- 263 Sialkot1,907,978
- 383 Mardan1,330,031
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 Gujranwala 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 Gujranwala 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