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Serpukhov — UN urban centre

128,005

Serpukhov: 128,005 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,775 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3069; 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: 54.9224, 37.4199. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975118,998Estimate
1980124,666Estimate
1985129,257Estimate
1990129,553Estimate
1995124,273Estimate
2000120,219Estimate
2005120,776Estimate
2010127,187Estimate
2015126,500Estimate
2020127,393Estimate
2025128,005Estimate
2030128,853Projection
2035129,249Projection
2040129,970Projection
2045130,621Projection
2050132,903Projection

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