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Urgench, 
Uzbekistan
262,377 people lived in Urgench in 2025. It is the 2222nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 12th 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Urgench grew
Where Urgench had 10 people in 1975, it had 24.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 386,310 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
Urgench through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Urgench in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Uzbekistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Urgench 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, Urgench covered 66 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 77 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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 1,000 people in Uzbekistan in 2025, 7 lived in Urgench, which is 262,377 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Uzbekistan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Urgench's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2218 Jalingo Nigeria262,796
- 2219 Mubi Nigeria262,651
- 2220 Ulan-Ude Russia262,433
- 2221 Palwal India262,399
- 2222 Urgench262,377
- 2224 Kharian Pakistan262,272
- 2226 Ambur India261,614
- 2227 Jinja Uganda261,604
- 2228 Moirabari India261,593
In Uzbekistan, 2025
- 1866 Qoqand308,393
- 1885 Nukus304,362
- 1980 Shahrisabz293,849
- 2124 Asaka273,582
- 2222 Urgench262,377
- 2327 Bukhara250,377
- 2378 Termez245,080
- 2632 Navoiy224,363
- 2769 Juma214,035
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Urgench 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 Urgench 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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