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Южный — UN urban centre

53,112

Южный: 53,112 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,582 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7243; 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: 56.3839, 61.9509. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197564,101Estimate
198067,882Estimate
198570,402Estimate
199071,221Estimate
199567,345Estimate
200064,424Estimate
200562,368Estimate
201058,615Estimate
201556,712Estimate
202054,049Estimate
202553,112Estimate
203052,274Projection
203551,418Projection
204050,691Projection
204550,056Projection

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