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Bokhtar, 
Tajikistan
90,998 people lived in Bokhtar in 2025. It is the 6818th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Tajikistan.
Like every city on this site, Bokhtar is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bokhtar grew
For every 10 people in Bokhtar in 2015, there were 16.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 302,026 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2045 and 2050. The UN first counts it as a city in 2015, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Bokhtar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bokhtar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Tajikistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bokhtar is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Tajikistan in 2025, 25 in all, led by Dushanbe, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bokhtar covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.9 km² of it. That is 87 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown by 46%, and its people have grown by 67%.
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 Tajikistan
Its share of Tajikistan
Of every 1,000 people in Tajikistan in 2025, 8 lived in Bokhtar, which is 90,998 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Tajikistan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bokhtar's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 6225 Cuamba Mozambique99,179
- 6478 Gogi Ethiopia95,403
- 6672 Kipese Democratic Republic of the Congo92,786
- 6688 Fatehpur India92,631
- 6818 Bokhtar90,998
- 7167 Kiambu Kenya86,758
- 7454 Aweday Ethiopia83,488
- 7666 Bandar Seri Bentan Indonesia81,340
- 7728 Dawran AlJadeedah Yemen80,686
In Tajikistan, 2025
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 Bokhtar are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2015 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 Bokhtar 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 →
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