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Jhang, 
Pakistan
571,359 people lived in Jhang in 2025. It is the 959th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 27th 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 Jhang's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jhang grew
For every 10 people in Jhang in 1975, there were 17.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 944,857 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Jhang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jhang 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 Jhang; 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, Jhang covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 71%.
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, 2 lived in Jhang, which is 571,359 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Jhang. 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
- 955 Nakuru Kenya574,091
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan572,505
- 957 Caleta Sanitaria Peru572,154
- 958 Alwar India571,972
- 959 Jhang571,359
- 960 Jafar Muhammad Ali Iraq570,883
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás Brazil570,302
- 962 Krasnoyarsk Russia569,604
- 963 Selong Indonesia568,139
In Pakistan, 2025
- 869 Bannu620,328
- 871 Larkana618,408
- 890 Kasur609,468
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan572,505
- 959 Jhang571,359
- 1036 Swabi535,083
- 1060 Shabqadar521,259
- 1061 Shahkot520,664
- 1094 Kohat506,145
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 Jhang 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 Jhang 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 →
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