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Vologda, 
Russia
268,759 people lived in Vologda in 2025. It is the 2168th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 56th largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Vologda 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 Vologda grew
Vologda had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 290,632 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
Vologda through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vologda 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 Vologda; 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, Vologda covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 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 55%, and its people are about as many.
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, 2 lived in Vologda, which is 268,759 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Russia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Vologda's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2164 Kabinda Democratic Republic of the Congo269,115
- 2165 Beldanga India269,051
- 2166 Dodoma Tanzania269,047
- 2167 Patahi India268,862
- 2168 Vologda268,759
- 2169 Constanța Romania268,757
- 2170 Chhatarpur India268,598
- 2171 Muzaffarabad Pakistan268,448
- 2174 Ternate Indonesia267,842
In Russia, 2025
- 1971 Oryol294,739
- 1994 Cherepovets291,159
- 1997 Kursk291,098
- 2091 Murmansk277,693
- 2168 Vologda268,759
- 2220 Ulan-Ude262,433
- 2289 Arkhangelsk254,797
- 2314 Vladimir251,498
- 2583 Petrozavodsk227,487
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 Vologda 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 Vologda 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