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Belgorod, 
Russia
363,411 people lived in Belgorod in 2025. It is the 1573rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 39th 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 Belgorod grew
Where Belgorod had 10 people in 1975, it had 17.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 349,541 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Belgorod through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Belgorod in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Russia and its 254 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Moscow). Belgorod is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Belgorod covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 70%, and its people have grown by 73%.
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, 3 lived in Belgorod, which is 363,411 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Russia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Belgorod's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1569 Mission Viejo United States365,221
- 1570 Yavatmal India363,908
- 1571 Borama Somalia363,753
- 1572 Vinnytsia Ukraine363,466
- 1573 Belgorod363,411
- 1574 Liyang China363,285
- 1575 Xingping China363,206
- 1576 Jakdo-dong North Korea363,071
- 1577 Linhai China362,290
In Russia, 2025
- 1468 Ulyanovsk387,698
- 1508 Stavropol376,062
- 1532 Ivanovo372,200
- 1564 Tver366,542
- 1573 Belgorod363,411
- 1596 Vladikavkaz356,422
- 1598 Tula356,025
- 1782 Kirov322,377
- 1787 Timofeevka321,680
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 Belgorod 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 Belgorod 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