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Qeysar, 
Afghanistan
112,398 people lived in Qeysar in 2025. It is the 5488th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in Afghanistan.
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 Qeysar's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Qeysar grew
Count 10 people in Qeysar in 2005 and the same count gives 22 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 326,866 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Qeysar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qeysar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Afghanistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Qeysar is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Afghanistan in 2025, 85 in all, led by Kabul, 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, Qeysar covered 10 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.1 km² of it.
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 Afghanistan
Its share of Afghanistan
Of every 1,000 people in Afghanistan in 2025, 3 lived in Qeysar, which is 112,398 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Afghanistan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Qeysar's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 5371 Imehejek South Sudan114,546
- 5387 Jerash Jordan114,256
- 5474 Irba Ethiopia112,673
- 5479 Việt Trì Vietnam112,591
- 5488 Qeysar112,398
- 5613 Gouripur Bangladesh109,980
- 5616 Akbarpur India109,949
- 5649 Baghlan109,385
- 5670 Ghazni109,080
In Afghanistan, 2025
- 3417 Guzarah176,657
- 3726 Mihtarlam162,346
- 5229 Lal117,617
- 5258 Golbahar116,780
- 5488 Qeysar112,398
- 5649 Baghlan109,385
- 5670 Ghazni109,080
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 Qeysar 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 Qeysar 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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