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Saratov, 
Russia
771,355 people lived in Saratov in 2025. It is the 690th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th 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 Saratov's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Saratov grew
Count 10 people in Saratov in 1975 and the same count gives 9.3 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 719,450 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
Saratov through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Saratov 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 Saratov; 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, Saratov covered 144 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 64%, and its people have fallen by 7%.
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, 5 lived in Saratov, which is 771,355 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Saratov. 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
- 686 Yueyang China775,434
- 687 Changshu China774,010
- 688 Evaton South Africa773,229
- 689 Amravati India771,610
- 690 Saratov771,355
- 691 Chihuahua Mexico771,297
- 692 Cape Town India770,260
- 693 Nanded India770,215
- 694 Eskisehir Türkiye766,333
In Russia, 2025
- 589 Ufa880,583
- 591 Voronezh879,892
- 666 Chelyabinsk794,411
- 676 Krasnodar783,125
- 690 Saratov771,355
- 749 Makhachkala717,618
- 829 Volgograd655,020
- 904 Tyumen602,535
- 932 Izhevsk586,811
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 Saratov 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 Saratov 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