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Cherkasy, 
Ukraine
248,683 people lived in Cherkasy in 2025. It is the 2350th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in Ukraine.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Cherkasy governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cherkasy grew
Where Cherkasy had 10 people in 1975, it had 7.7 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 221,933 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Cherkasy through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cherkasy in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ukraine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Cherkasy is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Ukraine in 2025, 79 in all, led by Kiev, 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, Cherkasy covered 63 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 68%, and its people have fallen by 23%.
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 Ukraine
Its share of Ukraine
Of every 1,000 people in Ukraine in 2025, 6 lived in Cherkasy, which is 248,683 people.
How to read this: shrink Ukraine to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Cherkasy; 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
- 2342 Kenema Sierra Leone249,485
- 2344 Edgecliff Village United States249,260
- 2347 Balrampur India248,830
- 2348 Dausa India248,804
- 2350 Cherkasy248,683
- 2352 Abak Nigeria248,528
- 2353 Lisala Democratic Republic of the Congo248,434
- 2354 Naugarh India248,273
- 2355 Demba Democratic Republic of the Congo248,191
In Ukraine, 2025
- 1572 Vinnytsia363,466
- 1612 Luhansk354,296
- 1972 Simferopol294,735
- 2263 Kherson257,682
- 2350 Cherkasy248,683
- 2380 Chernihiv244,882
- 2412 Poltava242,753
- 2605 Sevastopol226,028
- 2975 Kropyvnytskyi200,894
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 Cherkasy 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 Cherkasy 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