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Vladivostok, 
Russia
455,141 people lived in Vladivostok in 2025. It is the 1222nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 29th largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Vladivostok 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 Vladivostok grew
Where Vladivostok had 10 people in 1975, it had 7.7 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 423,432 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Vladivostok through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vladivostok in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Vladivostok 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, Vladivostok covered 103 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 44 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 23%.
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 Vladivostok, which is 455,141 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Vladivostok. 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
- 1218 Saharsa India456,879
- 1219 Irapuato Mexico456,628
- 1220 Cheboksary456,304
- 1221 Raiganj India456,239
- 1222 Vladivostok455,141
- 1223 Hafizabad Pakistan454,903
- 1224 Butembo Democratic Republic of the Congo454,857
- 1225 Sadiqabad Pakistan454,465
- 1226 Surrey Canada454,230
In Russia, 2025
- 1163 Tomsk477,632
- 1180 Kemerovo470,175
- 1191 Ryazan466,086
- 1220 Cheboksary456,304
- 1222 Vladivostok455,141
- 1239 Penza449,851
- 1256 Irkutsk442,807
- 1278 Kaliningrad436,555
- 1312 Orenburg426,263
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 Vladivostok 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 Vladivostok 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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