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Baghlan, 
Afghanistan
109,385 people lived in Baghlan in 2025. It is the 5649th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th largest in Afghanistan.
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 Baghlan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Baghlan grew
Count 10 people in Baghlan in 1995 and the same count gives 20.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 316,829 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Baghlan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Baghlan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Afghanistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Afghanistan and its 85 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kabul). Baghlan 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, Baghlan covered 13 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.9 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 90%, and its people have grown by 80%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Afghanistan
Its share of Afghanistan
Of every 1,000 people in Afghanistan in 2025, 2 lived in Baghlan, which is 109,385 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Afghanistan; the coloured squares live in Baghlan. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 5479 Việt Trì Vietnam112,591
- 5488 Qeysar112,398
- 5613 Gouripur Bangladesh109,980
- 5616 Akbarpur India109,949
- 5649 Baghlan109,385
- 5670 Ghazni109,080
- 5849 Bhuapur Bangladesh105,501
- 5978 Busisi Democratic Republic of the Congo103,613
- 6060 Karamile Ethiopia101,975
In Afghanistan, 2025
- 3726 Mihtarlam162,346
- 5229 Lal117,617
- 5258 Golbahar116,780
- 5488 Qeysar112,398
- 5649 Baghlan109,385
- 5670 Ghazni109,080
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Baghlan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Baghlan 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