List of cities in Pakistan by population

This is a list showing the most populous cities in Pakistan as of the 2017 Census of Pakistan. City populations found in this list only refer to the population found within the city's defined limits and any adjacent cantonment, if exists (except for Gujranwala and Okara). The census totals below come from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.[1] for the four provinces of Pakistan and the Islamabad Capital Territory, and from the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Planning & Development Department (or the PND AJK) for cities inside Azad Kashmir.[2]

A map showing all of the cities in Pakistan with a population over 300,000 as of the 2017 census' provisional results.

As per the 2017 Census of Pakistan, there are two megacities, ten million-plus cities, and 99 cities having a population of 100,000 or more. Out of these 99 cities, 58 are located in country's most populous province Punjab, 22 in Sindh, 11 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, five in Balochistan, two in Azad Kashmir, and one in Islamabad Capital Territory. It is unknown whether Gilgit-Baltistan has any city with over 100,000 people or not as Gilgit-Baltistan has not yet publicly released any 2017 census results. As per the previous census in 1998, the largest city of Gilgit-Baltistan was Gilgit, with 56,701 inhabitants.