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Dashoguz, 
Turkmenistan
211,569 people lived in Dashoguz in 2025. It is the 2807th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Turkmenistan.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dashoguz grew
Where Dashoguz had 10 people in 1975, it had 26.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 301,258 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Dashoguz through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dashoguz in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Turkmenistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Dashoguz is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Turkmenistan in 2025, 11 in all, led by Ashgabat, 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, Dashoguz covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 56 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.6 times as many.
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 Turkmenistan
Its share of Turkmenistan
Of every 100 people in Turkmenistan in 2025, 3 lived in Dashoguz, which is 211,569 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Turkmenistan; the coloured squares live in Dashoguz. 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
- 2796 Narus South Sudan212,131
- 2797 Bandundu Democratic Republic of the Congo212,016
- 2799 Darauli India211,985
- 2801 Koliwar India211,825
- 2807 Dashoguz211,569
- 2808 Wuxue China211,544
- 2817 Kabondo-Dianda Democratic Republic of the Congo211,167
- 2824 Madaripur Bangladesh210,635
- 2827 Ennerdale South Africa210,428
In Turkmenistan, 2025
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 Dashoguz 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 Dashoguz 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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