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АЗС — UN urban centre

132,454

АЗС: 132,454 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,613 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7872; 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: 53.0613, 158.6317. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975156,909Estimate
1980181,153Estimate
1985191,737Estimate
1990195,086Estimate
1995177,809Estimate
2000156,617Estimate
2005146,433Estimate
2010136,648Estimate
2015135,733Estimate
2020136,930Estimate
2025132,454Estimate
2030128,894Projection
2035125,606Projection
2040122,634Projection
2045120,048Projection
2050117,560Projection

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