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Elektrostal — UN urban centre

160,893

Elektrostal: 160,893 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,766 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3510; 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: 55.7864, 38.4531. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975126,537Estimate
1980134,014Estimate
1985139,849Estimate
1990145,490Estimate
1995141,581Estimate
2000139,266Estimate
2005144,092Estimate
2010150,337Estimate
2015152,679Estimate
2020158,367Estimate
2025160,893Estimate
2030163,717Projection
2035165,590Projection
2040167,879Projection
2045169,917Projection
2050172,091Projection

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