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Cherepovets, 
Russia
291,159 people lived in Cherepovets in 2025. It is the 1994th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 51st 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 Cherepovets grew
Where Cherepovets had 10 people in 1975, it had 11 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 308,200 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
Cherepovets through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cherepovets in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Cherepovets 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, Cherepovets covered 74 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 70 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 55%, and its people have grown by 10%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Russia
Its share of Russia
Of every 1,000 people in Russia in 2025, 2 lived in Cherepovets, which is 291,159 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 Cherepovets; 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
- 1988 Bhadrak India291,997
- 1990 Bayannur China291,787
- 1991 Pangkalpinang Indonesia291,683
- 1992 Beledweyne Somalia291,630
- 1994 Cherepovets291,159
- 1995 Quetzaltenango Guatemala291,105
- 1996 Louisville United States291,103
- 1997 Kursk291,098
- 1998 Euclid United States290,669
In Russia, 2025
- 1920 Saransk299,262
- 1927 Novokuznetsk298,733
- 1945 Smolensk297,177
- 1971 Oryol294,739
- 1994 Cherepovets291,159
- 1997 Kursk291,098
- 2091 Murmansk277,693
- 2168 Vologda268,759
- 2220 Ulan-Ude262,433
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 Cherepovets 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 Cherepovets 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