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Stavropol, 
Russia
376,062 people lived in Stavropol in 2025. It is the 1508th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Stavropol is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Stavropol grew
Where Stavropol had 10 people in 1975, it had 12.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 370,478 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Stavropol through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Stavropol 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 Stavropol; 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, Stavropol covered 89 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 51 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 25%.
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 Russia
Its share of Russia
Of every 1,000 people in Russia in 2025, 3 lived in Stavropol, which is 376,062 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Stavropol. 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
- 1504 Matadi Democratic Republic of the Congo377,297
- 1505 Jizzakh Uzbekistan376,607
- 1506 Gamboru Nigeria376,374
- 1507 Mirpur Khas Pakistan376,343
- 1508 Stavropol376,062
- 1509 Tirunelveli India376,005
- 1510 Timika Indonesia375,910
- 1511 Xinghua China375,876
- 1512 Lalpur Bangladesh375,833
In Russia, 2025
- 1278 Kaliningrad436,555
- 1312 Orenburg426,263
- 1415 Podolsk400,335
- 1468 Ulyanovsk387,698
- 1508 Stavropol376,062
- 1532 Ivanovo372,200
- 1564 Tver366,542
- 1573 Belgorod363,411
- 1596 Vladikavkaz356,422
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 Stavropol 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 Stavropol 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