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Wazirabad, 
Pakistan
340,058 people lived in Wazirabad in 2025. It is the 1681st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 53rd 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 Wazirabad'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 Wazirabad grew
Count 10 people in Wazirabad in 1975 and the same count gives 47.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 530,354 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: 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
Wazirabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wazirabad 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). Wazirabad 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, Wazirabad covered 45 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.4 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.4 times its size, and its people are 4.7 times as many.
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 Wazirabad, which is 340,058 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 Wazirabad; 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
- 1677 Kigoma Tanzania340,483
- 1678 Takamatsu Japan340,478
- 1679 Pyŏngsŏng North Korea340,370
- 1680 Gojra340,108
- 1681 Wazirabad340,058
- 1682 Birpur India339,926
- 1683 Bo'ai China339,876
- 1684 Bhagalpur India339,560
- 1685 Montería Colombia339,380
In Pakistan, 2025
- 1593 Chiniot357,181
- 1614 Burewala354,057
- 1641 Narowal348,144
- 1680 Gojra340,108
- 1681 Wazirabad340,058
- 1695 Mandi Bahauddin337,161
- 1711 Jaranwala335,463
- 1785 Nawabshah321,838
- 1867 Jacobabad308,137
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 Wazirabad 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 Wazirabad 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