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Mian Channu, 
Pakistan
196,976 people lived in Mian Channu in 2025. It is the 3039th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 92nd 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 Mian Channu's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mian Channu grew
Where Mian Channu had 10 people in 1975, it had 39 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 382,456 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Mian Channu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mian Channu 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). Mian Channu 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, Mian Channu covered 20 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.4 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 Mian Channu, which is 196,976 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Mian Channu. 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
- 3032 Dutse Nigeria197,314
- 3031 Oltiariq Uzbekistan197,314
- 3035 Gulu Uganda197,090
- 3036 Dilolo Democratic Republic of the Congo197,075
- 3039 Mian Channu196,976
- 3042 Dina196,799
- 3043 Bhalwal196,792
- 3049 Shujaabad196,255
- 3053 Bayt Sa`dan Yemen196,086
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2902 Havelian Cantonment205,608
- 2922 Batkhela204,156
- 2957 Sakhakot201,598
- 2964 Pasrur201,450
- 3039 Mian Channu196,976
- 3042 Dina196,799
- 3043 Bhalwal196,792
- 3049 Shujaabad196,255
- 3071 Kamalia195,472
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 Mian Channu 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 Mian Channu 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