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Lalamusa, 
Pakistan
228,248 people lived in Lalamusa in 2025. It is the 2576th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 74th 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 Lalamusa's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lalamusa grew
Where Lalamusa had 10 people in 1975, it had 41.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 459,292 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Lalamusa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lalamusa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Lalamusa is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Pakistan in 2025, 323 in all, led by Karachi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Lalamusa covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.4 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 3.3 times as many.
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, 1 lived in Lalamusa, which is 228,248 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Lalamusa. 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
- 2567 Masrakh India228,857
- 2571 Jega Nigeria228,584
- 2574 Puli Khumri Afghanistan228,271
- 2575 Asmara Eritrea228,270
- 2576 Lalamusa228,248
- 2578 Yei South Sudan228,087
- 2582 Binhai China227,533
- 2583 Petrozavodsk Russia227,487
- 2586 Hihya Egypt227,360
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2381 Khairpur244,838
- 2427 Attock241,714
- 2432 Mianwali241,207
- 2544 Hasilpur230,987
- 2576 Lalamusa228,248
- 2598 Bahawalnagar226,415
- 2618 Samundri225,170
- 2648 Ahmedpur East223,056
- 2652 Sambrial222,828
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 Lalamusa 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 Lalamusa 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