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Rubtsovsk — UN urban centre

127,090

Rubtsovsk: 127,090 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,812 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7545; 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: 51.517, 81.2061. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975134,653Estimate
1980141,775Estimate
1985147,727Estimate
1990151,363Estimate
1995148,170Estimate
2000145,157Estimate
2005140,253Estimate
2010131,169Estimate
2015128,654Estimate
2020128,627Estimate
2025127,090Estimate
2030125,787Projection
2035124,370Projection
2040123,266Projection
2045122,264Projection
2050121,361Projection

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