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Hrodna — UN urban centre

374,464

Hrodna: 374,464 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,522 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 96; territory: Belarus (BLR). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: 53.6791, 23.8283. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975188,482Estimate
1980229,564Estimate
1985265,981Estimate
1990296,136Estimate
1995309,665Estimate
2000319,602Estimate
2005325,825Estimate
2010333,279Estimate
2015353,336Estimate
2020380,400Estimate
2025374,464Estimate
2030370,333Projection
2035364,844Projection
2040359,685Projection
2045353,783Projection
2050347,475Projection

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