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Mianwali, 
Pakistan
241,207 people lived in Mianwali in 2025. It is the 2432nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 72nd 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 Mianwali'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 Mianwali grew
Count 10 people in Mianwali in 1975 and the same count gives 45.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 353,668 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
Mianwali through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mianwali 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 Mianwali; 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, Mianwali covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.9 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 5.9 times its size, and its people are 4.6 times as many.
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 Mianwali, which is 241,207 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Pakistan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Mianwali's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2421 Boma Democratic Republic of the Congo242,042
- 2427 Attock241,714
- 2430 Tambacounda Senegal241,254
- 2431 Ore Nigeria241,251
- 2432 Mianwali241,207
- 2436 Xinchang China240,747
- 2437 Payyanur India240,715
- 2438 Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm Vietnam240,480
- 2439 Fenghua District China240,478
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2337 Chakwal249,801
- 2338 Pattoki249,646
- 2381 Khairpur244,838
- 2427 Attock241,714
- 2432 Mianwali241,207
- 2544 Hasilpur230,987
- 2576 Lalamusa228,248
- 2598 Bahawalnagar226,415
- 2618 Samundri225,170
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 Mianwali 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 Mianwali 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