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Hisor, 
Tajikistan
125,054 people lived in Hisor in 2025. It is the 4901st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Tajikistan.
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 Hisor'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 Hisor grew
Where Hisor had 10 people in 2005, it had 22.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 341,328 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
Hisor through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hisor in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Tajikistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tajikistan and its 25 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Dushanbe). Hisor 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, Hisor covered 38 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.3 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Tajikistan
Its share of Tajikistan
Of every 100 people in Tajikistan in 2025, 1 lived in Hisor, which is 125,054 people.
How to read this: shrink Tajikistan to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Hisor; 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
- 4771 Mtwara Tanzania128,086
- 4839 Rihab Yemen126,332
- 4847 Chauri Chaura India126,176
- 4864 Delingat Egypt125,765
- 4901 Hisor125,054
- 4902 Basha Ethiopia124,959
- 4936 Boditi Ethiopia123,992
- 4985 Khar Bajaur Pakistan122,854
- 5014 Fujieda Japan122,203
In Tajikistan, 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 Hisor 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 Hisor 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