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Kislovodsk — UN urban centre

130,679

Kislovodsk: 130,679 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,672 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6115; 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: 43.9158, 42.7193. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197593,881Estimate
198099,729Estimate
1985106,120Estimate
1990112,330Estimate
1995116,085Estimate
2000121,116Estimate
2005124,090Estimate
2010125,680Estimate
2015124,038Estimate
2020127,938Estimate
2025130,679Estimate
2030133,662Projection
2035137,636Projection
2040140,480Projection
2045144,377Projection
2050148,673Projection

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