Mulanje has a population of 16,672, making it the 22nd largest place we list in Malawi. It is in Southern Region.
Mulanje holds under a tenth of one per cent of Malawi's 22,785,535 people. Lilongwe, the largest place we list there, is 67 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 16,483, almost unchanged.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Mwanza | Southern Region | 20,345 |
| Chitipa | Northern Region | 20,011 |
| Monkey Bay | Southern Region | 16,867 |
| Nkhata Bay | Northern Region | 16,099 |
| Luchenza | Southern Region | 14,211 |
| Chipeni | Central Region | 10,553 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.