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Luhansk, 
Ukraine
354,296 people lived in Luhansk in 2025. It is the 1612th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 12th largest in Ukraine.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Luhansk's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Luhansk grew
Count 10 people in Luhansk in 1975 and the same count gives 8.3 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 293,488 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Luhansk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Luhansk in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ukraine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ukraine and its 79 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kiev). Luhansk 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, Luhansk covered 84 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 62 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 36%, and its people have fallen by 17%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Ukraine
Its share of Ukraine
Of every 1,000 people in Ukraine in 2025, 9 lived in Luhansk, which is 354,296 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Ukraine, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Luhansk's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1608 Balyana Egypt354,769
- 1609 Massawa Eritrea354,657
- 1610 Anápolis Brazil354,576
- 1611 Yongzhou China354,335
- 1612 Luhansk354,296
- 1613 Lili China354,151
- 1614 Burewala Pakistan354,057
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat Egypt354,037
- 1616 Bilbeis Egypt353,541
In Ukraine, 2025
- 1161 Kryvyi Rih477,940
- 1342 Mykolaiv419,484
- 1516 Mariupol375,504
- 1572 Vinnytsia363,466
- 1612 Luhansk354,296
- 1972 Simferopol294,735
- 2263 Kherson257,682
- 2350 Cherkasy248,683
- 2380 Chernihiv244,882
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Luhansk 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 Luhansk 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