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Kashgar, 
China
506,476 people lived in Kashgar in 2025. It is the 1093rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 203rd largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Kashgar 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 Kashgar grew
Count 10 people in Kashgar in 1975 and the same count gives 20.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 510,880 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: 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
Kashgar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kashgar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Kashgar 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, Kashgar covered 63 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 2.1 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Kashgar in 2025 — about 1 in 2,778.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1089 Wrocław Poland508,528
- 1090 Fuxin508,131
- 1091 Shunyi507,591
- 1092 Malatya Türkiye506,854
- 1093 Kashgar506,476
- 1094 Kohat Pakistan506,145
- 1095 Belkuchi Bangladesh505,615
- 1096 Jingjiang505,098
- 1097 Mansehra Pakistan503,920
In China, 2025
- 1087 Jinhe510,984
- 1088 Hegang509,748
- 1090 Fuxin508,131
- 1091 Shunyi507,591
- 1093 Kashgar506,476
- 1096 Jingjiang505,098
- 1100 Anqing503,036
- 1106 Anshun499,794
- 1114 Yangjiang496,608
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 Kashgar 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 Kashgar 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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