Chuy Region · Kyrgyzstan
Kara-Balta population
48,278people · latest figure
Kara-Balta has a population of 48,278, making it the 7th largest place we list in Kyrgyzstan. It is in Chuy Region.
Kara-Balta holds 0.65% of Kyrgyzstan's 7,400,465 people. Bishkek, the largest place we list there, is 19 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 62,796, a fall of 23%.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Karakol | Issyk-Kul | 84,351 |
| Tokmok | Chuy Region | 71,443 |
| Uzgen | Osh Region | 49,410 |
| Balykchy | Issyk-Kul | 42,875 |
| Naryn | Naryn Region | 41,178 |
| Bazar-Korgon | Jalal-Abad Region | 41,011 |
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.