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Cheboksary, 
Russia
456,304 people lived in Cheboksary in 2025. It is the 1220th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 28th 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cheboksary grew
Where Cheboksary had 10 people in 1975, it had 13.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 447,715 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Cheboksary through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cheboksary in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Cheboksary 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, Cheboksary covered 100 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 31%.
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 Russia
Its share of Russia
Of every 1,000 people in Russia in 2025, 3 lived in Cheboksary, which is 456,304 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 Cheboksary; 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
- 1216 Jiaozhou China457,288
- 1217 Batman Türkiye456,902
- 1218 Saharsa India456,879
- 1219 Irapuato Mexico456,628
- 1220 Cheboksary456,304
- 1221 Raiganj India456,239
- 1222 Vladivostok455,141
- 1223 Hafizabad Pakistan454,903
- 1224 Butembo Democratic Republic of the Congo454,857
In Russia, 2025
- 1108 Naberezhnye Chelny498,625
- 1163 Tomsk477,632
- 1180 Kemerovo470,175
- 1191 Ryazan466,086
- 1220 Cheboksary456,304
- 1222 Vladivostok455,141
- 1239 Penza449,851
- 1256 Irkutsk442,807
- 1278 Kaliningrad436,555
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Cheboksary 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 Cheboksary 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