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Komsomolsk-on-Amur — UN urban centre

196,243

Komsomolsk-on-Amur: 196,243 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,050 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7799; 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: 50.5584, 137.0159. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975212,192Estimate
1980234,567Estimate
1985255,324Estimate
1990270,357Estimate
1995259,054Estimate
2000244,141Estimate
2005231,364Estimate
2010220,821Estimate
2015209,882Estimate
2020202,391Estimate
2025196,243Estimate
2030191,521Projection
2035186,954Projection
2040181,777Projection
2045178,188Projection
2050174,743Projection

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