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Nowshera, 
Pakistan
872,172 people lived in Nowshera in 2025. It is the 600th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Pakistan.
Like every city on this site, Nowshera is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nowshera grew
Where Nowshera had 10 people in 1975, it had 85.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Nowshera through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nowshera 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 Nowshera; 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, Nowshera covered 135 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 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 10.8 times its size, and its people are 8.6 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, 3 lived in Nowshera, which is 872,172 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Pakistan; the coloured squares live in Nowshera. 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
- 596 Chenghai China875,988
- 597 Oslo Norway874,991
- 598 Al Ain United Arab Emirates873,839
- 599 Hengyang China873,169
- 600 Nowshera872,172
- 601 Cagayan de Oro Philippines870,291
- 602 Agadir Morocco869,990
- 603 Katowice Poland865,777
- 604 Bata Equatorial Guinea863,383
In Pakistan, 2025
- 383 Mardan1,330,031
- 452 Sargodha1,142,723
- 497 Quetta1,025,211
- 498 Mingora1,024,813
- 600 Nowshera872,172
- 613 Abbottabad851,819
- 619 Gujrat846,968
- 650 Sukkur812,885
- 684 Bahawalpur776,611
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 Nowshera 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 Nowshera 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