Kostroma — UN urban centre
Kostroma: 226,622 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,596 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3948; 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: 57.7632, 40.9471. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 273,458 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 285,178 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 294,750 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 294,072 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 281,483 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 268,741 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 256,722 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 240,240 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 233,964 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 231,728 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 226,622 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 218,056 | Projection |
| 2035 | 213,668 | Projection |
| 2040 | 209,818 | Projection |
| 2045 | 206,386 | Projection |
| 2050 | 203,120 | Projection |
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