Rostov-on-Don — UN urban centre
Rostov-on-Don: 1,065,880 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #479 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5012; 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: 47.2436, 39.7074. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,030,259 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,086,701 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,106,925 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,119,825 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,099,154 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,086,965 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,085,272 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,065,639 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,069,276 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,070,574 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,065,880 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,063,155 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,058,528 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,056,563 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,055,796 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,054,772 | Projection |
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