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Krasnodar, 
Russia
783,125 people lived in Krasnodar in 2025. It is the 676th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 13th largest in Russia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Krasnodar 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 Krasnodar grew
Krasnodar had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 769,027 people in 2050.
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
Krasnodar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Krasnodar 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). Krasnodar 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, Krasnodar covered 221 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 60 km² of it. That is 76 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are about as many.
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, 5 lived in Krasnodar, which is 783,125 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 Krasnodar; 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
- 672 Kota Kinabalu Malaysia789,885
- 673 Yingkou China786,031
- 674 Suzhou China785,949
- 675 Kandy Sri Lanka785,519
- 676 Krasnodar783,125
- 677 Yingkou China782,210
- 678 Nanyang China782,146
- 679 Zhenjiang China781,639
- 680 Jalgaon India781,486
In Russia, 2025
- 543 Samara955,599
- 589 Ufa880,583
- 591 Voronezh879,892
- 666 Chelyabinsk794,411
- 676 Krasnodar783,125
- 690 Saratov771,355
- 749 Makhachkala717,618
- 829 Volgograd655,020
- 904 Tyumen602,535
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 Krasnodar 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 Krasnodar 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