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Vitsebsk, 
Belarus
361,484 people lived in Vitsebsk in 2025. It is the 1582nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Belarus.
Like every city on this site, Vitsebsk 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 Vitsebsk grew
For every 10 people in Vitsebsk in 1975, there were 12.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 319,131 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
Vitsebsk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vitsebsk in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Belarus · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Belarus and its 15 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Minsk). Vitsebsk is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Vitsebsk covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 59%, and its people have grown by 27%.
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 Belarus
Its share of Belarus
Of every 100 people in Belarus in 2025, 4 lived in Vitsebsk, which is 361,484 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Belarus, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Vitsebsk's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1578 Qidong China362,192
- 1579 London Canada362,006
- 1580 San Cristobal Venezuela361,969
- 1581 Hulan China361,540
- 1582 Vitsebsk361,484
- 1583 Dilla Ethiopia360,925
- 1584 Daloa Côte d’Ivoire360,630
- 1585 Boa Vista Brazil360,361
- 1586 Fallujah Iraq359,695
In Belarus, 2025
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Vitsebsk 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 Vitsebsk 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