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Astrakhan, 
Russia
524,085 people lived in Astrakhan in 2025. It is the 1054th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Astrakhan is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Astrakhan grew
Count 10 people in Astrakhan in 1975 and the same count gives 10.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 519,050 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Astrakhan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Astrakhan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Astrakhan 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, Astrakhan covered 144 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 36 km² of it. That is 69 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 51%, and its people have grown by 9%.
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, 4 lived in Astrakhan, which is 524,085 people.
How to read this: shrink Russia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Astrakhan; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1050 Beibei China527,806
- 1051 Langfang China527,161
- 1052 Maroua Cameroon526,702
- 1053 Rohtak India526,540
- 1054 Astrakhan524,085
- 1055 Jember Indonesia522,844
- 1056 Masetjhaba View South Africa522,402
- 1057 Málaga Spain521,854
- 1058 Edinburgh United Kingdom521,784
In Russia, 2025
- 932 Izhevsk586,811
- 962 Krasnoyarsk569,604
- 993 Yaroslavl553,086
- 1014 Khabarovsk543,422
- 1054 Astrakhan524,085
- 1102 Barnaul502,491
- 1108 Naberezhnye Chelny498,625
- 1163 Tomsk477,632
- 1180 Kemerovo470,175
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Astrakhan 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 Astrakhan 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