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Naberezhnye Chelny, 
Russia
498,625 people lived in Naberezhnye Chelny in 2025. It is the 1108th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 24th largest in Russia.
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 Naberezhnye Chelny'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 Naberezhnye Chelny grew
Count 10 people in Naberezhnye Chelny in 1975 and the same count gives 88.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 489,277 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Naberezhnye Chelny through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Naberezhnye Chelny in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Naberezhnye Chelny 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, Naberezhnye Chelny covered 101 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 9.5 times its size, and its people are 8.8 times as many.
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, 3 lived in Naberezhnye Chelny, which is 498,625 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Naberezhnye Chelny. 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
- 1104 Dairut Egypt501,258
- 1105 Ijebu-Ode Nigeria500,036
- 1106 Anshun China499,794
- 1107 Bahir Dar Ethiopia498,735
- 1108 Naberezhnye Chelny498,625
- 1109 Hamedan Iran498,337
- 1110 General Santos Philippines498,098
- 1111 Vũng Tàu Vietnam498,010
- 1112 Balung Indonesia497,754
In Russia, 2025
- 993 Yaroslavl553,086
- 1014 Khabarovsk543,422
- 1054 Astrakhan524,085
- 1102 Barnaul502,491
- 1108 Naberezhnye Chelny498,625
- 1163 Tomsk477,632
- 1180 Kemerovo470,175
- 1191 Ryazan466,086
- 1220 Cheboksary456,304
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 Naberezhnye Chelny 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 Naberezhnye Chelny 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