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Nizhnevartovsk — UN urban centre

195,090

Nizhnevartovsk: 195,090 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,082 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7450; 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: 60.9395, 76.5666. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975138,950Estimate
1980139,825Estimate
1985146,157Estimate
1990155,141Estimate
1995175,451Estimate
2000186,348Estimate
2005185,348Estimate
2010190,397Estimate
2015196,571Estimate
2020195,120Estimate
2025195,090Estimate
2030196,082Projection
2035196,428Projection
2040197,268Projection
2045197,982Projection
2050198,856Projection

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