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Magnitogorsk, 
Russia
317,107 people lived in Magnitogorsk in 2025. It is the 1810th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 44th largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Magnitogorsk is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Magnitogorsk grew
Where Magnitogorsk had 10 people in 1975, it had 10.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 287,718 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
Magnitogorsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Magnitogorsk in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 254 cities in Russia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Moscow. The ringed dot in colour is Magnitogorsk; 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, Magnitogorsk covered 101 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 67 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 87%, and its people have grown by 6%.
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 Russia
Its share of Russia
Of every 1,000 people in Russia in 2025, 2 lived in Magnitogorsk, which is 317,107 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Magnitogorsk. 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
- 1806 Malmo Sweden318,242
- 1807 Dumai Indonesia317,280
- 1808 Al-Qadarif Sudan317,258
- 1809 Nazirhat Bangladesh317,240
- 1810 Magnitogorsk317,107
- 1811 Bhusawal India317,085
- 1812 Hazaribagh India316,861
- 1813 Surendranagar India316,206
- 1814 Buôn Ma Thuột Vietnam316,052
In Russia, 2025
- 1596 Vladikavkaz356,422
- 1598 Tula356,025
- 1782 Kirov322,377
- 1787 Timofeevka321,680
- 1810 Magnitogorsk317,107
- 1826 Tambov314,026
- 1892 Rajon Swerdlowski302,890
- 1920 Saransk299,262
- 1927 Novokuznetsk298,733
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 Magnitogorsk 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 Magnitogorsk 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