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Belebei — UN urban centre

74,529

Belebei: 74,529 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,357 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6896; 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: 54.1072, 54.1154. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197564,673Estimate
198064,813Estimate
198567,338Estimate
199071,523Estimate
199577,616Estimate
200078,139Estimate
200574,099Estimate
201073,201Estimate
201575,085Estimate
202075,132Estimate
202574,529Estimate
203072,580Projection
203572,019Projection
204071,639Projection
204571,304Projection
205071,026Projection

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