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Voronezh, 
Russia
879,892 people lived in Voronezh in 2025. It is the 591st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Voronezh 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 Voronezh grew
Voronezh had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 835,502 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
Voronezh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Voronezh 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 Voronezh; 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, Voronezh covered 179 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 41 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 65%, and its people are about as many.
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, 6 lived in Voronezh, which is 879,892 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Russia; the coloured squares live in Voronezh. 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
- 587 Huadu China882,089
- 588 Ulsan South Korea881,858
- 589 Ufa880,583
- 590 Querétaro Mexico880,361
- 591 Voronezh879,892
- 592 Adelaide Australia879,249
- 593 Sembawang Singapore878,551
- 594 Firozabad India878,282
- 595 Saint Petersburg United States877,183
In Russia, 2025
- 479 Rostov-on-Don1,065,880
- 530 Omsk975,485
- 543 Samara955,599
- 589 Ufa880,583
- 591 Voronezh879,892
- 666 Chelyabinsk794,411
- 676 Krasnodar783,125
- 690 Saratov771,355
- 749 Makhachkala717,618
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 Voronezh 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 Voronezh 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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