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Narowal — UN urban centre

348,144

Narowal: 348,144 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,641 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8329; 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: 32.1016, 74.8736. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197569,083Estimate
198076,896Estimate
198590,845Estimate
1990104,732Estimate
1995131,700Estimate
2000172,011Estimate
2005209,657Estimate
2010252,726Estimate
2015285,750Estimate
2020301,007Estimate
2025348,144Estimate
2030387,294Projection
2035449,303Projection
2040492,978Projection
2045537,303Projection
2050577,619Projection

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