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Kotli, 
Pakistan
181,837 people lived in Kotli in 2025. It is the 3313th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 103rd largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kotli 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 Kotli grew
For every 10 people in Kotli in 1980, there were 28.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 315,060 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 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Kotli through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kotli 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). Kotli 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, Kotli covered 22 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.5 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 15%.
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 Kotli, which is 181,837 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 Kotli; 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
- 3278 Akugba Nigeria183,921
- 3287 Koudougou Burkina Faso183,409
- 3291 Afamolla Bangladesh183,242
- 3311 Sumbawanga Tanzania181,940
- 3313 Kotli181,837
- 3314 Al-Wasitah Egypt181,776
- 3335 Taraz Kazakhstan180,844
- 3348 Beni Muhammadiyat Egypt180,286
- 3355 Sinkāt Sudan180,082
In Pakistan, 2025
- 3049 Shujaabad196,255
- 3071 Kamalia195,472
- 3072 Kot Addu195,384
- 3202 Nankana Sahib188,474
- 3313 Kotli181,837
- 3400 Oghi177,887
- 3434 Layyah176,125
- 3513 Gujar Khan172,682
- 3622 Battagram166,956
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 Kotli are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Kotli 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