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Zelenodol'sk — UN urban centre

60,512

Zelenodol'sk: 60,512 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,247 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5818; 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: 55.8511, 48.5303. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197567,287Estimate
198067,113Estimate
198570,965Estimate
199075,144Estimate
199574,416Estimate
200066,988Estimate
200564,497Estimate
201063,360Estimate
201564,939Estimate
202060,851Estimate
202560,512Estimate
203060,285Projection
203559,954Projection
204062,692Projection
204562,523Projection
205063,907Projection

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