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Murom — UN urban centre

98,152

Murom: 98,152 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,298 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4400; 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: 55.5713, 42.0344. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975102,087Estimate
1980109,993Estimate
1985114,634Estimate
1990118,251Estimate
1995117,850Estimate
2000118,560Estimate
2005117,286Estimate
2010109,268Estimate
2015104,097Estimate
2020102,534Estimate
202598,152Estimate
203096,004Projection
203593,953Projection
204092,138Projection
204590,529Projection
205088,993Projection

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