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Minusinsk — UN urban centre

56,044

Minusinsk: 56,044 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,985 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7689; 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: 53.7012, 91.6915. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197563,094Estimate
198061,877Estimate
198562,846Estimate
199066,564Estimate
199567,197Estimate
200064,759Estimate
200557,505Estimate
201061,345Estimate
201560,488Estimate
202058,785Estimate
202556,044Estimate
203054,912Projection
203553,811Projection
204052,845Projection
204552,000Projection
205051,197Projection

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