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Pyatigorsk — UN urban centre

214,212

Pyatigorsk: 214,212 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,764 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6153; 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: 44.0358, 43.0637. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975139,452Estimate
1980145,140Estimate
1985162,599Estimate
1990175,059Estimate
1995185,386Estimate
2000192,065Estimate
2005192,194Estimate
2010197,657Estimate
2015205,957Estimate
2020208,691Estimate
2025214,212Estimate
2030226,239Projection
2035232,437Projection
2040240,070Projection
2045244,246Projection
2050248,617Projection

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