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Brest, 
Belarus
369,414 people lived in Brest in 2025. It is the 1546th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Belarus.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Brest governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Brest grew
For every 10 people in Brest in 1975, there were 24.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 332,277 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Brest through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Brest in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Belarus · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 15 cities in Belarus in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Minsk. The ringed dot in colour is Brest; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Brest covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 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 to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 2.5 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Belarus
Its share of Belarus
Of every 100 people in Belarus in 2025, 4 lived in Brest, which is 369,414 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Belarus; the coloured squares live in Brest. 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
- 1542 Al-Manshah Egypt370,283
- 1543 Daura Nigeria369,916
- 1544 Qarchak Iran369,782
- 1545 Xuancheng China369,529
- 1546 Brest369,414
- 1547 Campina Grande Brazil369,184
- 1548 Dehri India368,750
- 1549 Shuyang China368,686
- 1550 Thoothukudi India368,221
In Belarus, 2025
- 254 Minsk1,950,680
- 1048 Homel529,882
- 1493 Mahilioŭ380,951
- 1522 Hrodna374,464
- 1546 Brest369,414
- 1582 Vitsebsk361,484
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 Brest 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 Brest 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