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Lipetsk — UN urban centre

281,568

Lipetsk: 281,568 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,067 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4286; 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: 52.6071, 39.5682. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975193,068Estimate
1980219,089Estimate
1985234,994Estimate
1990244,198Estimate
1995258,560Estimate
2000269,563Estimate
2005294,772Estimate
2010291,595Estimate
2015289,197Estimate
2020285,448Estimate
2025281,568Estimate
2030278,207Projection
2035274,522Projection
2040270,049Projection
2045267,335Projection
2050263,343Projection

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