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Asaka, 
Uzbekistan
273,582 people lived in Asaka in 2025. It is the 2124th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Uzbekistan.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Asaka's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Asaka grew
Count 10 people in Asaka in 1990 and the same count gives 44.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 465,332 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Asaka through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Asaka in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Uzbekistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Uzbekistan and its 76 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Tashkent). Asaka is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Asaka covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 80 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 4.4 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Uzbekistan
Its share of Uzbekistan
Of every 1,000 people in Uzbekistan in 2025, 7 lived in Asaka, which is 273,582 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Uzbekistan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Asaka's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2120 Vehari Pakistan273,823
- 2121 Magboro Nigeria273,818
- 2122 Nacala Mozambique273,732
- 2123 Yibin China273,660
- 2124 Asaka273,582
- 2128 Saskatoon Canada273,454
- 2130 Sanmenxia China272,970
- 2132 Cabanatuan Philippines272,890
- 2133 Nzérékoré Guinea272,866
In Uzbekistan, 2025
- 1505 Jizzakh376,607
- 1866 Qoqand308,393
- 1885 Nukus304,362
- 1980 Shahrisabz293,849
- 2124 Asaka273,582
- 2222 Urgench262,377
- 2327 Bukhara250,377
- 2378 Termez245,080
- 2632 Navoiy224,363
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Asaka are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Asaka publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries