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Petrozavodsk, 
Russia
227,487 people lived in Petrozavodsk in 2025. It is the 2583rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 66th 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 Petrozavodsk'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 Petrozavodsk grew
Count 10 people in Petrozavodsk in 1975 and the same count gives 8.5 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 209,341 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
Petrozavodsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Petrozavodsk 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). Petrozavodsk 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, Petrozavodsk covered 55 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.5 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 4.8 times its size, and its people have fallen by 15%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Russia
Its share of Russia
Of every 1,000 people in Russia in 2025, 2 lived in Petrozavodsk, which is 227,487 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Petrozavodsk. 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
- 2575 Asmara Eritrea228,270
- 2576 Lalamusa Pakistan228,248
- 2578 Yei South Sudan228,087
- 2582 Binhai China227,533
- 2583 Petrozavodsk227,487
- 2586 Hihya Egypt227,360
- 2589 Kazipur Bangladesh227,234
- 2592 Charikar Afghanistan227,054
- 2598 Bahawalnagar Pakistan226,415
In Russia, 2025
- 2168 Vologda268,759
- 2220 Ulan-Ude262,433
- 2289 Arkhangelsk254,797
- 2314 Vladimir251,498
- 2583 Petrozavodsk227,487
- 4384 Kurgan139,073
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 Petrozavodsk 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 Petrozavodsk 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