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Kurgan, 
Russia
139,073 people lived in Kurgan in 2025. It is the 4384th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 96th largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Kurgan is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kurgan grew
Where Kurgan had 10 people in 1975, it had 5.5 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 133,589 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Kurgan fall from 325,783 in 1985 to 133,589 in 2050. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1985 figure as high: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Kurgan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kurgan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kurgan 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, Kurgan covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 88 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 11%, and its people have fallen by 45%.
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, 1 lived in Kurgan, which is 139,073 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Kurgan. 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
- 4324 Gurue Mozambique141,061
- 4339 Manazil Baradan Yemen140,682
- 4351 Al Kifl Iraq140,343
- 4370 Haidarganj India139,637
- 4384 Kurgan139,073
- 4389 Rubuchi Nigeria138,912
- 4404 Khayran Yemen138,244
- 4439 Lwebo Democratic Republic of the Congo137,354
- 4501 Luiza Democratic Republic of the Congo135,439
In Russia, 2025
- 2220 Ulan-Ude262,433
- 2289 Arkhangelsk254,797
- 2314 Vladimir251,498
- 2583 Petrozavodsk227,487
- 4384 Kurgan139,073
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 Kurgan 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 Kurgan 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