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Rajon Swerdlowski, 
Russia
302,890 people lived in Rajon Swerdlowski in 2025. It is the 1892nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 46th largest in Russia.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Rajon Swerdlowski grew
Count 10 people in Rajon Swerdlowski in 1975 and the same count gives 8 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 280,435 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
Rajon Swerdlowski through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rajon Swerdlowski in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Rajon Swerdlowski 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, Rajon Swerdlowski covered 68 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 57 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 34%, and its people have fallen by 20%.
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 Rajon Swerdlowski, which is 302,890 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Rajon Swerdlowski. 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
- 1888 Fanling Hong Kong304,190
- 1889 Gao'an China304,111
- 1890 Tagum Philippines303,614
- 1891 Sers Al Layyan Egypt303,302
- 1892 Rajon Swerdlowski302,890
- 1893 Busto Arsizio Italy302,759
- 1894 Al-Santa Egypt302,572
- 1895 Hafar Al-Batin Saudi Arabia302,534
- 1896 Sivakasi India302,256
In Russia, 2025
- 1782 Kirov322,377
- 1787 Timofeevka321,680
- 1810 Magnitogorsk317,107
- 1826 Tambov314,026
- 1892 Rajon Swerdlowski302,890
- 1920 Saransk299,262
- 1927 Novokuznetsk298,733
- 1945 Smolensk297,177
- 1971 Oryol294,739
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Rajon Swerdlowski 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 Rajon Swerdlowski 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