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Khanewal, 
Pakistan
300,722 people lived in Khanewal in 2025. It is the 1906th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 58th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Khanewal governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Khanewal grew
Where Khanewal had 10 people in 1975, it had 36.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 442,754 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Khanewal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Khanewal 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). Khanewal 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, Khanewal covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.2 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 4 times its size, and its people are 3.7 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Khanewal, which is 300,722 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 Khanewal; 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
- 1902 Changxing China301,206
- 1903 Hammond United States301,148
- 1904 Amroha India301,108
- 1905 Siwan India300,919
- 1906 Khanewal300,722
- 1907 Ado Nigeria300,622
- 1908 Singaraja Indonesia300,490
- 1909 Shaistaganj Bangladesh300,465
- 1910 Sirsa India300,414
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1695 Mandi Bahauddin337,161
- 1711 Jaranwala335,463
- 1785 Nawabshah321,838
- 1867 Jacobabad308,137
- 1906 Khanewal300,722
- 1970 Khanpur294,821
- 1984 Hazro293,506
- 2025 Timergara287,866
- 2037 Shikarpur285,859
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 Khanewal 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 Khanewal 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