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Krasnoyarsk — UN urban centre

569,604

Krasnoyarsk: 569,604 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #962 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7648; 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: 56.034, 92.8648. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975608,015Estimate
1980642,920Estimate
1985684,997Estimate
1990680,448Estimate
1995624,329Estimate
2000591,648Estimate
2005573,526Estimate
2010557,061Estimate
2015561,322Estimate
2020578,115Estimate
2025569,604Estimate
2030562,146Projection
2035554,543Projection
2040545,666Projection
2045540,071Projection
2050534,910Projection

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