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Sloviansk — UN urban centre

94,476

Sloviansk: 94,476 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,539 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4323; territory: Ukraine (UKR). 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: 48.8483, 37.5872. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975138,970Estimate
1980138,303Estimate
1985137,631Estimate
1990138,545Estimate
1995136,355Estimate
2000128,482Estimate
2005121,265Estimate
2010116,526Estimate
2015113,494Estimate
2020108,596Estimate
202594,476Estimate
203094,142Projection
203590,160Projection
204086,101Projection
204582,154Projection
205077,963Projection

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