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Sevastopol, 
Ukraine
226,028 people lived in Sevastopol in 2025. It is the 2605th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st largest in Ukraine.
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 Sevastopol grew
Count 10 people in Sevastopol in 1975 and the same count gives 8.9 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 199,157 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
Sevastopol through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sevastopol in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ukraine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ukraine and its 79 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kiev). Sevastopol 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, Sevastopol covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 84 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 48%, and its people have fallen by 11%.
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 Ukraine
Its share of Ukraine
Of every 1,000 people in Ukraine in 2025, 6 lived in Sevastopol, which is 226,028 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Ukraine, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Sevastopol's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2592 Charikar Afghanistan227,054
- 2598 Bahawalnagar Pakistan226,415
- 2599 Arua Uganda226,390
- 2600 Maghagha Egypt226,358
- 2605 Sevastopol226,028
- 2609 MohammadAbad-e Rigan Iran225,871
- 2610 Harar Ethiopia225,677
- 2612 Naqamte Ethiopia225,503
- 2615 Al Qusiya Egypt225,243
In Ukraine, 2025
- 2263 Kherson257,682
- 2350 Cherkasy248,683
- 2380 Chernihiv244,882
- 2412 Poltava242,753
- 2605 Sevastopol226,028
- 2975 Kropyvnytskyi200,894
- 2987 Makiivka200,425
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 Sevastopol 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 Sevastopol 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 →
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