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Jhelum, 
Pakistan
457,793 people lived in Jhelum in 2025. It is the 1213th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in Pakistan.
Like every city on this site, Jhelum is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jhelum grew
For every 10 people in Jhelum in 1975, there were 63.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 852,403 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Jhelum through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jhelum 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). Jhelum 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, Jhelum covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 11.9 times its size, and its people are 6.4 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, 2 lived in Jhelum, which is 457,793 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Jhelum. 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
- 1209 Nagercoil India460,826
- 1210 Kota Bharu Malaysia460,445
- 1211 Elenga Bangladesh459,645
- 1212 Atlanta United States458,225
- 1213 Jhelum457,793
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya Egypt457,678
- 1215 Barishal Bangladesh457,323
- 1216 Jiaozhou China457,288
- 1217 Batman Türkiye456,902
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1061 Shahkot520,664
- 1094 Kohat506,145
- 1097 Mansehra503,920
- 1148 Yar Hussain483,239
- 1213 Jhelum457,793
- 1223 Hafizabad454,903
- 1225 Sadiqabad454,465
- 1234 Haripur451,578
- 1289 Daska433,772
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 Jhelum 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 Jhelum 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