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Belovo — UN urban centre

55,449

Belovo: 55,449 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,105 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7567; 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: 54.4165, 86.2972. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197566,710Estimate
198064,600Estimate
198564,837Estimate
199066,513Estimate
199565,241Estimate
200063,851Estimate
200560,690Estimate
201058,906Estimate
201559,546Estimate
202056,523Estimate
202555,449Estimate
203054,477Projection
203553,502Projection
204052,662Projection
204551,924Projection
205051,227Projection

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