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Volgograd, 
Russia
655,020 people lived in Volgograd in 2025. It is the 829th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th 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 Volgograd grew
For every 10 people in Volgograd in 1975, there were 8.7 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 615,392 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
Volgograd through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Volgograd in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Russia and its 254 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Moscow). Volgograd 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, Volgograd covered 155 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 36 km² of it. That is 55 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 33%, and its people have fallen by 13%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Russia
Its share of Russia
Of every 1,000 people in Russia in 2025, 5 lived in Volgograd, which is 655,020 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Volgograd. 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
- 825 Diyarbakir Türkiye660,826
- 826 Al-Ubayyid Sudan659,964
- 827 Siliguri India658,183
- 828 Bacolod Philippines655,836
- 829 Volgograd655,020
- 830 Tamale Ghana654,868
- 831 Zucheng China654,599
- 832 Antwerp Belgium652,506
- 833 Changde China651,562
In Russia, 2025
- 666 Chelyabinsk794,411
- 676 Krasnodar783,125
- 690 Saratov771,355
- 749 Makhachkala717,618
- 829 Volgograd655,020
- 904 Tyumen602,535
- 932 Izhevsk586,811
- 962 Krasnoyarsk569,604
- 993 Yaroslavl553,086
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 Volgograd 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 Volgograd 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