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Krasnoyarsk, 
Russia
569,604 people lived in Krasnoyarsk in 2025. It is the 962nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th 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 Krasnoyarsk grew
Where Krasnoyarsk had 10 people in 1975, it had 9.4 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 534,910 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
Krasnoyarsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Krasnoyarsk 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). Krasnoyarsk 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, Krasnoyarsk covered 95 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 41 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 fallen by 6%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Russia
Its share of Russia
Of every 1,000 people in Russia in 2025, 4 lived in Krasnoyarsk, which is 569,604 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Krasnoyarsk. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 958 Alwar India571,972
- 959 Jhang Pakistan571,359
- 960 Jafar Muhammad Ali Iraq570,883
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás Brazil570,302
- 962 Krasnoyarsk569,604
- 963 Selong Indonesia568,139
- 964 Suez Egypt567,866
- 965 Norfolk United States567,473
- 966 Zaporizhzhia Ukraine566,844
In Russia, 2025
- 749 Makhachkala717,618
- 829 Volgograd655,020
- 904 Tyumen602,535
- 932 Izhevsk586,811
- 962 Krasnoyarsk569,604
- 993 Yaroslavl553,086
- 1014 Khabarovsk543,422
- 1054 Astrakhan524,085
- 1102 Barnaul502,491
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 Krasnoyarsk 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 Krasnoyarsk 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