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Bukhara, 
Uzbekistan
250,377 people lived in Bukhara in 2025. It is the 2327th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 13th largest in Uzbekistan.
Like every city on this site, Bukhara is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bukhara grew
Count 10 people in Bukhara in 1975 and the same count gives 19.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 424,875 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Bukhara through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bukhara 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). Bukhara 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, Bukhara covered 71 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 84 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 79%, and its people have grown by 93%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Uzbekistan
Its share of Uzbekistan
Of every 1,000 people in Uzbekistan in 2025, 7 lived in Bukhara, which is 250,377 people.
How to read this: shrink Uzbekistan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Bukhara; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2321 Rangunia Bangladesh250,564
- 2322 Kyzylorda Kazakhstan250,557
- 2324 La Romana Dominican Republic250,479
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm Egypt250,476
- 2327 Bukhara250,377
- 2329 Sikandarabad India250,310
- 2331 Victoria Canada250,244
- 2334 Rehovot Israel249,925
- 2335 Laredo United States249,861
In Uzbekistan, 2025
- 1885 Nukus304,362
- 1980 Shahrisabz293,849
- 2124 Asaka273,582
- 2222 Urgench262,377
- 2327 Bukhara250,377
- 2378 Termez245,080
- 2632 Navoiy224,363
- 2769 Juma214,035
- 3031 Oltiariq197,314
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 Bukhara are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Bukhara 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