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Ryazan, 
Russia
466,086 people lived in Ryazan in 2025. It is the 1191st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 27th 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 Ryazan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ryazan grew
Ryazan had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 507,963 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
Ryazan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ryazan 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). Ryazan 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, Ryazan covered 107 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 50 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 are about as many.
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, 3 lived in Ryazan, which is 466,086 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 Ryazan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1187 Changge China468,159
- 1188 Brighton United Kingdom467,937
- 1189 Beilun District China467,912
- 1190 Yangquan China467,148
- 1191 Ryazan466,086
- 1192 Ichalkaranji India465,814
- 1193 Jundiaí Brazil465,531
- 1194 Tongxiang China465,450
- 1195 Balia India465,399
In Russia, 2025
- 1102 Barnaul502,491
- 1108 Naberezhnye Chelny498,625
- 1163 Tomsk477,632
- 1180 Kemerovo470,175
- 1191 Ryazan466,086
- 1220 Cheboksary456,304
- 1222 Vladivostok455,141
- 1239 Penza449,851
- 1256 Irkutsk442,807
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 Ryazan 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 Ryazan 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