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Nankana Sahib, 
Pakistan
188,474 people lived in Nankana Sahib in 2025. It is the 3202nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 99th largest in Pakistan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Nankana Sahib governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nankana Sahib grew
For every 10 people in Nankana Sahib in 1975, there were 32 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 313,602 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: 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
Nankana Sahib through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nankana Sahib 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 Nankana Sahib; 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, Nankana Sahib covered 14 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.0 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people have grown by 92%.
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 Nankana Sahib, which is 188,474 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 Nankana Sahib; 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
- 3169 Abu Gharaq Iraq189,692
- 3187 Mathbarer Char Bangladesh188,871
- 3190 Ar Rijad Yemen188,715
- 3194 Al Qurna Iraq188,604
- 3202 Nankana Sahib188,474
- 3209 Amassoma Nigeria188,265
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan Sudan188,089
- 3214 Guider Cameroon187,887
- 3217 Domariaganj India187,658
In Pakistan, 2025
- 3043 Bhalwal196,792
- 3049 Shujaabad196,255
- 3071 Kamalia195,472
- 3072 Kot Addu195,384
- 3202 Nankana Sahib188,474
- 3313 Kotli181,837
- 3400 Oghi177,887
- 3434 Layyah176,125
- 3513 Gujar Khan172,682
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 Nankana Sahib 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 Nankana Sahib 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