List of most populous metropolitan areas in Pakistan
This is a list of the most populous metropolitan areas in Pakistan. These twenty areas are home to about 35.3 million people or about 20% of the population of Pakistan.
According to Demographia.com, population estimates are not considered reliable. Census data were reported for Karachi for 2011 in the Indian press, but there is no indication of such results from the Pakistani census authorities. No other data was reported. The last complete census was in 1998 and recent estimates have not been identified.[1]
Karachi is the largest metropolitan area of Pakistan and 5th largest in the world.
List
| Rank | City | Image | Province | Population | Metropolitan area km2 (sqmi) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karachi |  | Sindh | 24,300,000[2][3] | 1,455 (561.8)[4] |
| 2 | Lahore |  | Punjab | 10,052,000[5] | 426 (164.5) |
| 3 | Rawalpindi-Islamabad |  | Punjab | 4,700,000[6][7] | 475 (183.4) |
| 4 | Faisalabad |  | Punjab | 4,075,000[8] | 163 (62.9) |
| 5 | Hyderabad |  | Sindh | 3,490,000[9] | 155 (59.8) |
| 6 | Multan |  | Punjab | 3,100,000[10] | 133 (51.4) |
| 7 | Gujranwala |  | Punjab | 2,700,000[11] | 88 (34.0) |
| 8 | Peshawar |  | KPK | 1,785,000[12] | 75 (29.0) |
| 9 | Sargodha |  | Punjab | 1,550,000[13] | 61 (23.6) |
| 10 | Quetta |  | Balochistan | 1,140,000[14] | 66 (25.5) |
| 11 | Bahawalpur |  | Punjab | 960,000[15] | 48 (18.5) |
| 12 | Sukkur |  | Sindh | 585,000[16] | 47 (18.1) |
| 13 | Sialkot |  | Punjab | 580,000 | 47 (18.1) |
| 14 | Sheikhupura |  | Punjab | 540,000 | 37 (14.3) |
| 15 | Larkana |  | Sindh | 520,000 | 33 (12.7) |
| 16 | Jhang |  | Punjab | 372,645 | 38 (14.7) |
| 17 | Rahim Yar Khan |  | Punjab | 353,112 | 22 (8.5) |
| 18 | Mardan |  | KPK | 352,135 | 23 (8.9) |
| 20 | Gujrat |  | Punjab | 336,727 | 26 (10.0) |
See also
- Demography of Pakistan
- List of most populous cities in Pakistan
- List of metropolitan areas by population
References
- ↑ "Population Size and Growth of Major Cities" (PDF). Demographia.com.
- ↑ Brinkhoff, Thomas. "The Principal Agglomerations of the World". citypopulation.de. City Population. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- ↑ "Population explosion: Put an embargo on industrialisation in Karachi". http://tribune.com.pk. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2014. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Geography & Demography". City District Government of Karachi. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ↑ http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf
- ↑ Frantzeskakis, J. M. "Islamabad, a town planning example for a sustainable city" (PDF).
- ↑ "Islamabad's population touches two-million mark". The Dawn News. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
- ↑ http://citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html
- ↑ http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf
- ↑ http://pcgip.urbanunit.gov.pk/docs/ADPDocumnets/ConsolidatedMultan_ADP.pdf
- ↑ http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/csas/PDF/V_26_No_2_9Dr.%20Asad%20Ali%20Khan.pdf
- ↑ http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf
- ↑ http://www.urbanunit.gov.pk/PublicationDocs/Punjab%20city%20profiles/Sargodha%20City%20Profile.pdf
- ↑ http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf
- ↑ http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf
- ↑ http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf
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