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Cherepovets — UN urban centre

291,159

Cherepovets: 291,159 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,994 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1773; territory: Russia (RUS). 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: 59.1306, 37.8919. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975265,643Estimate
1980300,525Estimate
1985317,024Estimate
1990324,230Estimate
1995307,624Estimate
2000291,392Estimate
2005308,928Estimate
2010297,800Estimate
2015291,299Estimate
2020288,151Estimate
2025291,159Estimate
2030294,772Projection
2035297,356Projection
2040300,556Projection
2045303,492Projection
2050308,200Projection

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