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Novokuznetsk, 
Russia
298,733 people lived in Novokuznetsk in 2025. It is the 1927th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 48th largest in Russia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Novokuznetsk governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Novokuznetsk grew
Count 10 people in Novokuznetsk in 1975 and the same count gives 6.9 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 280,752 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
Novokuznetsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Novokuznetsk in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Russia and its 254 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Moscow). Novokuznetsk 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, Novokuznetsk covered 60 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 57%, and its people have fallen by 31%.
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, 2 lived in Novokuznetsk, which is 298,733 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Novokuznetsk. 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
- 1923 Bugama Nigeria299,022
- 1924 Semey Kazakhstan298,847
- 1925 Toulon France298,777
- 1926 Gold Coast Australia298,750
- 1927 Novokuznetsk298,733
- 1928 Fungurume Democratic Republic of the Congo298,713
- 1930 Asahikawa Japan298,481
- 1931 Baochi China298,433
- 1932 Bojonegoro Indonesia298,285
In Russia, 2025
- 1810 Magnitogorsk317,107
- 1826 Tambov314,026
- 1892 Rajon Swerdlowski302,890
- 1920 Saransk299,262
- 1927 Novokuznetsk298,733
- 1945 Smolensk297,177
- 1971 Oryol294,739
- 1994 Cherepovets291,159
- 1997 Kursk291,098
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 Novokuznetsk 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 Novokuznetsk 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