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Ленинский — UN urban centre

161,368

Ленинский: 161,368 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,749 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6096; 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: 54.3673, 48.582. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975123,368Estimate
1980149,859Estimate
1985173,619Estimate
1990190,761Estimate
1995185,833Estimate
2000185,427Estimate
2005178,766Estimate
2010168,506Estimate
2015164,816Estimate
2020167,009Estimate
2025161,368Estimate
2030158,972Projection
2035156,503Projection
2040154,428Projection
2045152,629Projection
2050150,952Projection

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