Federation of B&H · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo population
696,731people · latest figure
Sarajevo has a population of 696,731, making it the 1st largest place we list in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is in Federation of B&H.
Sarajevo holds 22.4% of Bosnia and Herzegovina's 3,114,242 people. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 696,731, almost unchanged.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Banja Luka | Srpska | 221,106 |
| Zenica | Federation of B&H | 164,423 |
| Tuzla | Federation of B&H | 142,486 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.