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Tashkent, 
Uzbekistan
Toshkent
3,935,793 people lived in Tashkent in 2025. It is the 117th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Uzbekistan, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Tashkent governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
In its own language: Toshkent.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tashkent grew
For every 10 people in Tashkent in 1975, there were 18.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 5.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes five million people between 2045 and 2050.
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
Tashkent through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tashkent in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Uzbekistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tashkent is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Uzbekistan in 2025, 76 in all, 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, Tashkent covered 599 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 186 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 87%.
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, 11 lived in Tashkent, which is 3.9 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Uzbekistan; the coloured squares live in Tashkent. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 113 Puning China3,989,322
- 114 Barcelona Spain3,982,704
- 115 Houston United States3,955,046
- 116 Monterrey Mexico3,938,015
- 117 Tashkent3,935,793
- 118 Antananarivo Madagascar3,916,219
- 119 Varanasi India3,858,863
- 120 Dakar Senegal3,852,475
- 121 Owerri Nigeria3,833,343
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: 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 Tashkent 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 Tashkent 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