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Izhevsk, 
Russia
586,811 people lived in Izhevsk in 2025. It is the 932nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Russia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Izhevsk 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 Izhevsk grew
Count 10 people in Izhevsk in 1975 and the same count gives 11.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 547,108 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
Izhevsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Izhevsk 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). Izhevsk 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, Izhevsk covered 104 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 66%, and its people have grown by 12%.
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, 4 lived in Izhevsk, which is 586,811 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 Izhevsk's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 928 Sagar India587,471
- 929 Ballari India587,340
- 930 Deoria India586,987
- 931 Kuching Malaysia586,880
- 932 Izhevsk586,811
- 933 Yenagoa Nigeria586,393
- 934 Zaragoza Spain585,533
- 935 Loudi China585,521
- 936 Cangzhou China585,507
In Russia, 2025
- 690 Saratov771,355
- 749 Makhachkala717,618
- 829 Volgograd655,020
- 904 Tyumen602,535
- 932 Izhevsk586,811
- 962 Krasnoyarsk569,604
- 993 Yaroslavl553,086
- 1014 Khabarovsk543,422
- 1054 Astrakhan524,085
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Izhevsk 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 Izhevsk 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