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Simferopol, 
Ukraine
294,735 people lived in Simferopol in 2025. It is the 1972nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 13th largest in Ukraine.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Simferopol governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Simferopol grew
Count 10 people in Simferopol in 1975 and the same count gives 10.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 257,497 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
Simferopol through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Simferopol in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ukraine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 79 cities in Ukraine in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kiev. The ringed dot in colour is Simferopol; 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, Simferopol covered 72 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 69 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 69%, and its people have grown by 9%.
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, 8 lived in Simferopol, which is 294,735 people.
How to read this: shrink Ukraine to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Simferopol; 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
- 1968 Yanjiao China294,943
- 1969 Franceville Gabon294,863
- 1970 Khanpur Pakistan294,821
- 1971 Oryol Russia294,739
- 1972 Simferopol294,735
- 1973 Kasumbalesa Democratic Republic of the Congo294,623
- 1974 Misrata Libya294,401
- 1975 Lichinga Mozambique294,317
- 1976 Chingola Zambia294,193
In Ukraine, 2025
- 1342 Mykolaiv419,484
- 1516 Mariupol375,504
- 1572 Vinnytsia363,466
- 1612 Luhansk354,296
- 1972 Simferopol294,735
- 2263 Kherson257,682
- 2350 Cherkasy248,683
- 2380 Chernihiv244,882
- 2412 Poltava242,753
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 Simferopol 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 Simferopol 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