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Burewala — UN urban centre

354,057

Burewala: 354,057 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,614 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7868; 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: 30.1584, 72.681. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197575,518Estimate
198090,173Estimate
1985107,743Estimate
1990127,545Estimate
1995165,822Estimate
2000212,620Estimate
2005245,034Estimate
2010285,002Estimate
2015306,399Estimate
2020313,703Estimate
2025354,057Estimate
2030379,060Projection
2035409,879Projection
2040441,889Projection
2045466,404Projection
2050487,640Projection

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