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Cheboksary — UN urban centre

456,304

Cheboksary: 456,304 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,220 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5555; 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: 56.1183, 47.2572. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975348,288Estimate
1980403,537Estimate
1985460,694Estimate
1990496,068Estimate
1995489,592Estimate
2000478,341Estimate
2005466,624Estimate
2010450,277Estimate
2015453,389Estimate
2020458,803Estimate
2025456,304Estimate
2030454,645Projection
2035452,293Projection
2040449,579Projection
2045448,467Projection
2050447,715Projection

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