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Podolsk, 
Russia
400,335 people lived in Podolsk in 2025. It is the 1415th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in Russia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Podolsk governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Podolsk grew
For every 10 people in Podolsk in 1975, there were 15.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 410,752 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
Podolsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Podolsk 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). Podolsk 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, Podolsk covered 96 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 59%.
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, 3 lived in Podolsk, which is 400,335 people.
How to read this: shrink Russia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Podolsk; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1411 Bhiwadi India401,290
- 1412 Sandakan Malaysia400,980
- 1413 Saki Nigeria400,875
- 1414 Modinagar India400,401
- 1415 Podolsk400,335
- 1416 Guarenas Venezuela399,477
- 1417 Manisa Türkiye399,014
- 1418 Wuzhou China398,593
- 1419 Stockton United States398,470
In Russia, 2025
- 1239 Penza449,851
- 1256 Irkutsk442,807
- 1278 Kaliningrad436,555
- 1312 Orenburg426,263
- 1415 Podolsk400,335
- 1468 Ulyanovsk387,698
- 1508 Stavropol376,062
- 1532 Ivanovo372,200
- 1564 Tver366,542
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 Podolsk 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 Podolsk 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