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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk — UN urban centre

127,955

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 127,955 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,780 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7862; 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: 46.9547, 142.7353. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975171,051Estimate
1980184,195Estimate
1985185,738Estimate
1990184,226Estimate
1995173,301Estimate
2000163,539Estimate
2005149,953Estimate
2010144,175Estimate
2015138,771Estimate
2020131,367Estimate
2025127,955Estimate
2030123,296Projection
2035110,187Projection
2040107,762Projection
2045104,270Projection
2050102,391Projection

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