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Bhalwal — UN urban centre

196,792

Bhalwal: 196,792 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,043 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7487; territory: Pakistan (PAK). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: 32.2696, 72.8973. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197575,151Estimate
198086,884Estimate
1985100,237Estimate
1990114,127Estimate
1995135,767Estimate
2000167,895Estimate
2005193,296Estimate
2010216,346Estimate
2015219,444Estimate
2020185,417Estimate
2025196,792Estimate
2030207,881Projection
2035222,142Projection
2040256,735Projection
2045280,200Projection
2050300,169Projection

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