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Dimitrovgrad — UN urban centre

98,392

Dimitrovgrad: 98,392 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,281 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6280; 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: 54.2201, 49.6036. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197585,823Estimate
198099,513Estimate
1985110,053Estimate
1990119,722Estimate
1995118,429Estimate
2000118,259Estimate
2005116,771Estimate
2010110,907Estimate
2015105,238Estimate
2020100,066Estimate
202598,392Estimate
203096,900Projection
203595,344Projection
204094,028Projection
204592,880Projection
205091,807Projection

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