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Stary Oskol — UN urban centre

101,831

Stary Oskol: 101,831 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,069 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4205; 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: 51.3051, 37.8653. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198568,644Estimate
199083,414Estimate
199590,840Estimate
2000103,998Estimate
2005106,766Estimate
2010106,783Estimate
2015105,196Estimate
2020103,117Estimate
2025101,831Estimate
2030100,734Projection
203599,520Projection
204098,556Projection
204597,665Projection
205096,852Projection

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