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Firozkoh, 
Afghanistan
204,753 people lived in Firozkoh in 2025. It is the 2915th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 12th 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 Firozkoh's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Firozkoh grew
For every 10 people in Firozkoh in 2000, there were 30.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 434,339 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Firozkoh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Firozkoh 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). Firozkoh 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, Firozkoh covered 26 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.7 km² of it.
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, 5 lived in Firozkoh, which is 204,753 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Afghanistan; the coloured squares live in Firozkoh. 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
- 2894 Suq al Shyukh Iraq206,015
- 2897 Luena Democratic Republic of the Congo205,691
- 2902 Havelian Cantonment Pakistan205,608
- 2908 Mongbwalu Democratic Republic of the Congo205,051
- 2915 Firozkoh204,753
- 2920 Alaba Kulito Ethiopia204,316
- 2921 Nanxun China204,276
- 2922 Batkhela Pakistan204,156
- 2924 Asarganj India204,072
In Afghanistan, 2025
- 2560 Maymana229,355
- 2574 Puli Khumri228,271
- 2592 Charikar227,054
- 2776 Shindand213,596
- 2915 Firozkoh204,753
- 3080 Fayzabad195,148
- 3153 Toraghundi190,543
- 3417 Guzarah176,657
- 3726 Mihtarlam162,346
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 Firozkoh are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Firozkoh 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