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Guzarah, 
Afghanistan
176,657 people lived in Guzarah in 2025. It is the 3417th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Afghanistan.
Like every city on this site, Guzarah 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 Guzarah grew
Where Guzarah had 10 people in 2005, it had 33 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 310,575 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Guzarah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Guzarah 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). Guzarah 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, Guzarah covered 24 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.9 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 3.3 times as many.
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, 4 lived in Guzarah, which is 176,657 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Afghanistan; the coloured squares live in Guzarah. 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
- 3383 Bahubal Bangladesh178,981
- 3400 Oghi Pakistan177,887
- 3406 Dearborn Heights United States177,423
- 3415 Handia India176,779
- 3417 Guzarah176,657
- 3418 Lwambo Democratic Republic of the Congo176,648
- 3422 Nkongsamba Cameroon176,511
- 3423 Madhabpur Bangladesh176,480
- 3428 Islampur India176,380
In Afghanistan, 2025
- 2776 Shindand213,596
- 2915 Firozkoh204,753
- 3080 Fayzabad195,148
- 3153 Toraghundi190,543
- 3417 Guzarah176,657
- 3726 Mihtarlam162,346
- 5229 Lal117,617
- 5258 Golbahar116,780
- 5488 Qeysar112,398
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 Guzarah are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Guzarah 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