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Ufa, 
Russia
880,583 people lived in Ufa in 2025. It is the 589th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Ufa is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ufa grew
Ufa had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 843,107 people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Ufa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ufa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ufa is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Russia in 2025, 254 in all, led by Moscow, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ufa covered 123 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are about as many.
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, 6 lived in Ufa, which is 880,583 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 Ufa's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 585 Kayseri Türkiye882,238
- 586 Bikaner India882,222
- 587 Huadu China882,089
- 588 Ulsan South Korea881,858
- 589 Ufa880,583
- 590 Querétaro Mexico880,361
- 591 Voronezh879,892
- 592 Adelaide Australia879,249
- 593 Sembawang Singapore878,551
In Russia, 2025
- 456 Kazan1,132,941
- 479 Rostov-on-Don1,065,880
- 530 Omsk975,485
- 543 Samara955,599
- 589 Ufa880,583
- 591 Voronezh879,892
- 666 Chelyabinsk794,411
- 676 Krasnodar783,125
- 690 Saratov771,355
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ufa 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 Ufa 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