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Samara, 
Russia
955,599 people lived in Samara in 2025. It is the 543rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th 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 Samara's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Samara grew
For every 10 people in Samara in 1975, there were 9.1 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 913,668 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
Samara through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Samara in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 254 cities in Russia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Moscow. The ringed dot in colour is Samara; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Samara covered 144 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 37 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 85%, and its people have fallen by 9%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Russia
Its share of Russia
Of every 1,000 people in Russia in 2025, 7 lived in Samara, which is 955,599 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 Samara; 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
- 539 Dharwad India965,667
- 540 Lilongwe Malawi961,399
- 541 San Miguel de Tucumán Argentina959,565
- 542 Konya Türkiye959,484
- 543 Samara955,599
- 544 Mwanza Tanzania954,104
- 545 Dagupan [Lingayen] Philippines953,092
- 546 Faizabad India952,074
- 547 Darbhanga India950,875
In Russia, 2025
- 449 Yekaterinburg1,148,237
- 456 Kazan1,132,941
- 479 Rostov-on-Don1,065,880
- 530 Omsk975,485
- 543 Samara955,599
- 589 Ufa880,583
- 591 Voronezh879,892
- 666 Chelyabinsk794,411
- 676 Krasnodar783,125
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 Samara 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 Samara 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