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Azov — UN urban centre

69,433

Azov: 69,433 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,945 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4979; 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: 47.1026, 39.421. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197569,722Estimate
198069,097Estimate
198570,970Estimate
199074,484Estimate
199576,398Estimate
200074,831Estimate
200576,474Estimate
201074,941Estimate
201571,830Estimate
202069,819Estimate
202569,433Estimate
203069,176Projection
203568,794Projection
204068,585Projection
204568,403Projection
205070,884Projection

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