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Kirov, 
Russia
322,377 people lived in Kirov in 2025. It is the 1782nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 42nd 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kirov grew
For every 10 people in Kirov in 1975, there were 6.3 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 298,833 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
Kirov through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kirov in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kirov 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, Kirov covered 58 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 40%, and its people have fallen by 37%.
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, 2 lived in Kirov, which is 322,377 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 Kirov; 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
- 1778 Valladolid Spain323,201
- 1779 Buffalo United States322,892
- 1780 Parma United States322,420
- 1781 Ciudad Victoria Mexico322,403
- 1782 Kirov322,377
- 1783 Hull United Kingdom322,100
- 1784 Mulongo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,881
- 1785 Nawabshah Pakistan321,838
- 1786 Shariatpur Bangladesh321,804
In Russia, 2025
- 1564 Tver366,542
- 1573 Belgorod363,411
- 1596 Vladikavkaz356,422
- 1598 Tula356,025
- 1782 Kirov322,377
- 1787 Timofeevka321,680
- 1810 Magnitogorsk317,107
- 1826 Tambov314,026
- 1892 Rajon Swerdlowski302,890
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 Kirov 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 Kirov 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