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Vladikavkaz, 
Russia
356,422 people lived in Vladikavkaz in 2025. It is the 1596th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 40th largest in Russia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Vladikavkaz governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Vladikavkaz grew
Count 10 people in Vladikavkaz in 1975 and the same count gives 13 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 401,664 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
Vladikavkaz through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vladikavkaz 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 Vladikavkaz; 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, Vladikavkaz covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 56 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 30%.
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, 2 lived in Vladikavkaz, which is 356,422 people.
How to read this: shrink Russia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Vladikavkaz; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain357,753
- 1593 Chiniot Pakistan357,181
- 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
In Russia, 2025
- 1508 Stavropol376,062
- 1532 Ivanovo372,200
- 1564 Tver366,542
- 1573 Belgorod363,411
- 1596 Vladikavkaz356,422
- 1598 Tula356,025
- 1782 Kirov322,377
- 1787 Timofeevka321,680
- 1810 Magnitogorsk317,107
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 Vladikavkaz 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 Vladikavkaz 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