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Shindand, 
Afghanistan
213,596 people lived in Shindand in 2025. It is the 2776th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Afghanistan.
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 Shindand grew
For every 10 people in Shindand in 2000, there were 33.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 370,361 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, 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
Shindand through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shindand in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Afghanistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 85 cities in Afghanistan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kabul. The ringed dot in colour is Shindand; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Shindand covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.3 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 53%, and its people are 3.3 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 Afghanistan
Its share of Afghanistan
Of every 1,000 people in Afghanistan in 2025, 5 lived in Shindand, which is 213,596 people.
How to read this: shrink Afghanistan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Shindand; 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
- 2767 Beersheba Israel214,104
- 2769 Juma Uzbekistan214,035
- 2774 Mulia Indonesia213,704
- 2775 Ica Peru213,644
- 2776 Shindand213,596
- 2788 Inayat Killi Pakistan212,640
- 2789 Auchi Nigeria212,634
- 2795 Am Timan Chad212,167
- 2796 Narus South Sudan212,131
In Afghanistan, 2025
- 2028 Kunduz287,295
- 2560 Maymana229,355
- 2574 Puli Khumri228,271
- 2592 Charikar227,054
- 2776 Shindand213,596
- 2915 Firozkoh204,753
- 3080 Fayzabad195,148
- 3153 Toraghundi190,543
- 3417 Guzarah176,657
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 Shindand are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Shindand 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