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Voronezh — UN urban centre

879,892

Voronezh: 879,892 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #591 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4362; 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: 51.6713, 39.1998. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975892,292Estimate
1980954,580Estimate
1985955,894Estimate
1990954,110Estimate
1995918,621Estimate
2000896,648Estimate
2005895,914Estimate
2010878,632Estimate
2015880,768Estimate
2020900,629Estimate
2025879,892Estimate
2030870,197Projection
2035859,488Projection
2040850,942Projection
2045844,161Projection
2050835,502Projection

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