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Ulyanovsk, 
Russia
387,698 people lived in Ulyanovsk in 2025. It is the 1468th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 35th largest in Russia.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ulyanovsk grew
Count 10 people in Ulyanovsk in 1975 and the same count gives 11.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 362,587 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
Ulyanovsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ulyanovsk in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ulyanovsk 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, Ulyanovsk covered 101 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 65%, and its people have grown by 19%.
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 Ulyanovsk, which is 387,698 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Ulyanovsk. 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
- 1464 Iseyin Nigeria389,526
- 1465 Phuket Thailand389,376
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima Egypt389,333
- 1467 Pishva Iran388,154
- 1468 Ulyanovsk387,698
- 1469 Al Roda Egypt387,432
- 1470 Ganja Azerbaijan386,822
- 1471 Malemba-Nkulu Democratic Republic of the Congo386,790
- 1472 Changping China386,664
In Russia, 2025
- 1256 Irkutsk442,807
- 1278 Kaliningrad436,555
- 1312 Orenburg426,263
- 1415 Podolsk400,335
- 1468 Ulyanovsk387,698
- 1508 Stavropol376,062
- 1532 Ivanovo372,200
- 1564 Tver366,542
- 1573 Belgorod363,411
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 Ulyanovsk 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 Ulyanovsk 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