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Golbahar, 
Afghanistan
116,780 people lived in Golbahar in 2025. It is the 5258th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 32nd largest in Afghanistan.
Like every city on this site, Golbahar is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Golbahar grew
Where Golbahar had 10 people in 2015, it had 13 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 407,674 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 2015, 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
Golbahar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Golbahar 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). Golbahar 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, Golbahar covered 28 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.8 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, 3 lived in Golbahar, which is 116,780 people.
How to read this: shrink Afghanistan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Golbahar; 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
- 5136 Vihiga Kenya119,644
- 5137 Paardekraal Ext 2 South Africa119,589
- 5167 Kafr Ibrash Egypt118,945
- 5229 Lal117,617
- 5258 Golbahar116,780
- 5371 Imehejek South Sudan114,546
- 5387 Jerash Jordan114,256
- 5474 Irba Ethiopia112,673
- 5479 Việt Trì Vietnam112,591
In Afghanistan, 2025
- 3153 Toraghundi190,543
- 3417 Guzarah176,657
- 3726 Mihtarlam162,346
- 5229 Lal117,617
- 5258 Golbahar116,780
- 5488 Qeysar112,398
- 5649 Baghlan109,385
- 5670 Ghazni109,080
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Golbahar are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2015 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 Golbahar 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