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Novosibirsk, 
Russia
1,331,432 people lived in Novosibirsk in 2025. It is the 381st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Novosibirsk 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 Novosibirsk grew
For every 10 people in Novosibirsk in 1975, there were 10.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Novosibirsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Novosibirsk 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). Novosibirsk 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, Novosibirsk covered 272 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 65 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people have grown by 7%.
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, 9 lived in Novosibirsk, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Russia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Novosibirsk's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 377 Cochabamba Bolivia1,346,672
- 378 Bishkek Kyrgyzstan1,343,048
- 379 Mysuru India1,342,126
- 380 Salem India1,337,000
- 381 Novosibirsk1,331,432
- 382 Purwokerto Indonesia1,331,010
- 383 Mardan Pakistan1,330,031
- 384 Cần Thơ Vietnam1,327,741
- 385 Zhongshan China1,326,078
In Russia, 2025
- 19 Moscow14,524,753
- 91 Saint Petersburg4,736,499
- 381 Novosibirsk1,331,432
- 432 Nizhny Novgorod1,196,944
- 449 Yekaterinburg1,148,237
- 456 Kazan1,132,941
- 479 Rostov-on-Don1,065,880
- 530 Omsk975,485
- 543 Samara955,599
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 Novosibirsk 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 Novosibirsk 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