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Tula, 
Russia
356,025 people lived in Tula in 2025. It is the 1598th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 41st 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 Tula's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tula grew
For every 10 people in Tula in 1975, there were 5 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 364,557 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Tula fall from 716,179 in 1980 to 355,171 in 2020. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1980 figure as low: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Tula through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tula 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 Tula; 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, Tula covered 85 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 55 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 58%, and its people have fallen by 50%.
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, 2 lived in Tula, which is 356,025 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Russia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Tula's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1594 Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas Ecuador356,829
- 1595 Aizawl India356,620
- 1596 Vladikavkaz356,422
- 1597 Memphis United States356,215
- 1598 Tula356,025
- 1599 Qazvin Iran355,865
- 1600 Korba India355,784
- 1601 Montes Claros Brazil355,651
- 1602 Vinh Vietnam355,643
In Russia, 2025
- 1532 Ivanovo372,200
- 1564 Tver366,542
- 1573 Belgorod363,411
- 1596 Vladikavkaz356,422
- 1598 Tula356,025
- 1782 Kirov322,377
- 1787 Timofeevka321,680
- 1810 Magnitogorsk317,107
- 1826 Tambov314,026
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 Tula 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 Tula 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