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Arkhangelsk, 
Russia
254,797 people lived in Arkhangelsk in 2025. It is the 2289th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 60th largest in Russia.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Arkhangelsk grew
Where Arkhangelsk had 10 people in 1975, it had 6.4 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 183,467 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Arkhangelsk fall from 410,785 in 1985 to 183,467 in 2050. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1985 figure as low: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Arkhangelsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Arkhangelsk in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Arkhangelsk is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Russia in 2025, 254 in all, led by Moscow, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Arkhangelsk covered 60 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 44%, and its people have fallen by 36%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Russia
Its share of Russia
Of every 1,000 people in Russia in 2025, 2 lived in Arkhangelsk, which is 254,797 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Arkhangelsk. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2281 Centurion South Africa255,900
- 2282 Wakayama Japan255,782
- 2283 Punto Fijo Venezuela255,662
- 2288 Skikda Algeria255,379
- 2289 Arkhangelsk254,797
- 2290 Shakar Garh Pakistan254,655
- 2293 Gaborone Botswana254,517
- 2294 Pathein Myanmar253,953
- 2295 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina253,857
In Russia, 2025
- 1997 Kursk291,098
- 2091 Murmansk277,693
- 2168 Vologda268,759
- 2220 Ulan-Ude262,433
- 2289 Arkhangelsk254,797
- 2314 Vladimir251,498
- 2583 Petrozavodsk227,487
- 4384 Kurgan139,073
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Arkhangelsk are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Arkhangelsk publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries