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Kryvyi Rih, 
Ukraine
477,940 people lived in Kryvyi Rih in 2025. It is the 1161st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Ukraine.
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 Kryvyi Rih grew
For every 10 people in Kryvyi Rih in 1975, there were 7.3 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 426,373 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
Kryvyi Rih through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kryvyi Rih in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ukraine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 79 cities in Ukraine in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kiev. The ringed dot in colour is Kryvyi Rih; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kryvyi Rih covered 127 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 52 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 69%, and its people have fallen by 27%.
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 100 people in Ukraine in 2025, 1 lived in Kryvyi Rih, which is 477,940 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Ukraine, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kryvyi Rih's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1157 Gaomi China479,056
- 1158 Yulin China478,875
- 1159 Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago478,107
- 1160 Jombang Indonesia478,051
- 1161 Kryvyi Rih477,940
- 1162 Gonda India477,697
- 1163 Tomsk Russia477,632
- 1164 Zigong China477,271
- 1165 Orlando United States477,249
In Ukraine, 2025
- 670 Dnipro792,115
- 758 Donetsk705,832
- 863 Lviv627,280
- 966 Zaporizhzhia566,844
- 1161 Kryvyi Rih477,940
- 1342 Mykolaiv419,484
- 1516 Mariupol375,504
- 1572 Vinnytsia363,466
- 1612 Luhansk354,296
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 Kryvyi Rih 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 Kryvyi Rih 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