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Namangan, 
Uzbekistan
947,465 people lived in Namangan in 2025. It is the 552nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Uzbekistan.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Namangan grew
For every 10 people in Namangan in 1975, there were 60.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Namangan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Namangan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Uzbekistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Namangan is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Uzbekistan in 2025, 76 in all, led by Tashkent, 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, Namangan covered 233 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 70 km² of it. That is 74 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people are 6 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 Uzbekistan
Its share of Uzbekistan
Of every 100 people in Uzbekistan in 2025, 3 lived in Namangan, which is 947,465 people.
How to read this: shrink Uzbekistan to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Namangan; 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
- 548 Nyala Sudan950,803
- 549 Trujillo Peru949,018
- 550 Bukavu Democratic Republic of the Congo948,948
- 551 Krishnanagar India948,788
- 552 Namangan947,465
- 553 Linfen China945,174
- 554 Homs Syria940,460
- 555 Bucaramanga Colombia939,291
- 556 Samarqand932,219
In Uzbekistan, 2025
- 117 Tashkent3,935,793
- 552 Namangan947,465
- 556 Samarqand932,219
- 658 Andijon803,518
- 671 Fergana791,877
- 979 Qarshi559,475
- 1505 Jizzakh376,607
- 1866 Qoqand308,393
- 1885 Nukus304,362
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 Namangan 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 Namangan 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