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Vladimir, 
Russia
251,498 people lived in Vladimir in 2025. It is the 2314th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 61st 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Vladimir grew
For every 10 people in Vladimir in 1975, there were 6.4 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 232,600 people in 2050.
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
Vladimir through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vladimir 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 Vladimir; 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, Vladimir covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 53%, and its people have fallen by 36%.
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 Vladimir, which is 251,498 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Vladimir. 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
- 2308 Shendi Sudan252,344
- 2310 Rosetta Egypt252,147
- 2312 Sunamganj Bangladesh251,822
- 2313 Tiaret Algeria251,576
- 2314 Vladimir251,498
- 2315 Golmud China251,353
- 2316 Shehong China251,287
- 2318 Jiangyou China251,202
- 2320 Araria India251,001
In Russia, 2025
- 2091 Murmansk277,693
- 2168 Vologda268,759
- 2220 Ulan-Ude262,433
- 2289 Arkhangelsk254,797
- 2314 Vladimir251,498
- 2583 Petrozavodsk227,487
- 4384 Kurgan139,073
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 Vladimir 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 Vladimir 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 →
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