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Ganja, 
Azerbaijan
386,822 people lived in Ganja in 2025. It is the 1470th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Azerbaijan.
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 Ganja's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ganja grew
Where Ganja had 10 people in 1975, it had 17 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 396,794 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Ganja through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ganja in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Azerbaijan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Azerbaijan and its 22 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Baku). Ganja 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, Ganja covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 70%.
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 Azerbaijan
Its share of Azerbaijan
Of every 100 people in Azerbaijan in 2025, 4 lived in Ganja, which is 386,822 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Azerbaijan, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ganja's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima Egypt389,333
- 1467 Pishva Iran388,154
- 1468 Ulyanovsk Russia387,698
- 1469 Al Roda Egypt387,432
- 1470 Ganja386,822
- 1471 Malemba-Nkulu Democratic Republic of the Congo386,790
- 1472 Changping China386,664
- 1473 Bournemouth United Kingdom386,557
- 1474 Antofagasta Chile385,812
In Azerbaijan, 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 Ganja 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 Ganja 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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