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Layyah, 
Pakistan
176,125 people lived in Layyah in 2025. It is the 3434th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 107th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Layyah 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 Layyah grew
Where Layyah had 10 people in 1975, it had 19.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 307,477 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045.
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
Layyah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Layyah 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 Layyah; 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, Layyah covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.5 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 3.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 95%.
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 Layyah, which is 176,125 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 Layyah; 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
- 3422 Nkongsamba Cameroon176,511
- 3423 Madhabpur Bangladesh176,480
- 3428 Islampur India176,380
- 3433 Hayfan Yemen176,151
- 3434 Layyah176,125
- 3451 Pingtung City Taiwan175,377
- 3459 Kitenge Democratic Republic of the Congo174,943
- 3485 Bukoba Tanzania173,889
- 3495 Ebolowa Cameroon173,565
In Pakistan, 2025
- 3072 Kot Addu195,384
- 3202 Nankana Sahib188,474
- 3313 Kotli181,837
- 3400 Oghi177,887
- 3434 Layyah176,125
- 3513 Gujar Khan172,682
- 3622 Battagram166,956
- 3652 Matta165,993
- 3721 Samarbagh162,603
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Layyah 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 Layyah 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