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Kyzylorda, 
Kazakhstan
250,557 people lived in Kyzylorda in 2025. It is the 2322nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Kazakhstan.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kyzylorda grew
For every 10 people in Kyzylorda in 1975, there were 30.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 324,709 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Kyzylorda through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kyzylorda in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Kazakhstan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kyzylorda is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Kazakhstan in 2025, 34 in all, led by Almaty, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kyzylorda covered 79 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 97 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 3 times as many.
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 Kazakhstan
Its share of Kazakhstan
Of every 100 people in Kazakhstan in 2025, 1 lived in Kyzylorda, which is 250,557 people.
How to read this: shrink Kazakhstan to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Kyzylorda; 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
- 2316 Shehong China251,287
- 2318 Jiangyou China251,202
- 2320 Araria India251,001
- 2321 Rangunia Bangladesh250,564
- 2322 Kyzylorda250,557
- 2324 La Romana Dominican Republic250,479
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm Egypt250,476
- 2327 Bukhara Uzbekistan250,377
- 2329 Sikandarabad India250,310
In Kazakhstan, 2025
- 1351 Aktobe416,455
- 1831 Karaganda313,529
- 1850 Aktau310,607
- 1924 Semey298,847
- 2322 Kyzylorda250,557
- 3335 Taraz180,844
- 3531 Zhanaozen171,827
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 Kyzylorda 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 Kyzylorda 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