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Multan, 
Pakistan
2,956,642 people lived in Multan in 2025. It is the 165th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th 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 Multan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Multan grew
Where Multan had 10 people in 1975, it had 37.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 4.1 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Multan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Multan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Multan 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, Multan covered 277 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 68 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 100 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Multan, which is 3.0 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Multan. 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
- 161 Ningbo China3,094,833
- 162 Kollam India3,074,562
- 163 Cebu City Philippines3,044,564
- 164 Shijiazhuang China2,990,397
- 165 Multan2,956,642
- 166 Thiruvananthapuram India2,946,119
- 167 Asansol India2,924,741
- 168 Aleppo Syria2,922,277
- 169 Brahmanbaria Bangladesh2,914,727
In Pakistan, 2025
- 73 Faisalabad5,566,382
- 88 Islāmābād4,860,084
- 134 Peshawar3,554,423
- 159 Gujranwala3,121,271
- 165 Multan2,956,642
- 174 Hyderabad2,863,633
- 263 Sialkot1,907,978
- 383 Mardan1,330,031
- 452 Sargodha1,142,723
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 Multan 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 Multan 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