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Vehari — UN urban centre

273,823

Vehari: 273,823 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,120 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7742; 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: 30.0454, 72.3521. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197557,329Estimate
198065,945Estimate
198587,611Estimate
1990105,459Estimate
1995142,331Estimate
2000197,997Estimate
2005223,701Estimate
2010250,049Estimate
2015260,197Estimate
2020248,531Estimate
2025273,823Estimate
2030300,662Projection
2035320,551Projection
2040343,588Projection
2045361,015Projection
2050381,854Projection

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