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Fergana, 
Uzbekistan
791,877 people lived in Fergana in 2025. It is the 671st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Uzbekistan.
Like every city on this site, Fergana 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 Fergana grew
For every 10 people in Fergana in 1975, there were 49.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Fergana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Fergana 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). Fergana 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, Fergana covered 224 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 64 km² of it. That is 81 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people are 5 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 Uzbekistan
Its share of Uzbekistan
Of every 100 people in Uzbekistan in 2025, 2 lived in Fergana, which is 791,877 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Uzbekistan, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Fergana's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 667 Jincheng China794,234
- 668 Oyo Nigeria793,241
- 669 Irbid Jordan792,470
- 670 Dnipro Ukraine792,115
- 671 Fergana791,877
- 672 Kota Kinabalu Malaysia789,885
- 673 Yingkou China786,031
- 674 Suzhou China785,949
- 675 Kandy Sri Lanka785,519
In Uzbekistan, 2025
- 117 Tashkent3,935,793
- 552 Namangan947,465
- 556 Samarqand932,219
- 658 Andijon803,518
- 671 Fergana791,877
- 979 Qarshi559,475
- 1505 Jizzakh376,607
- 1866 Qoqand308,393
- 1885 Nukus304,362
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 Fergana 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 Fergana 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