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Yekaterinburg, 
Russia
1,148,237 people lived in Yekaterinburg in 2025. It is the 449th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Russia.
Like every city on this site, Yekaterinburg 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 Yekaterinburg grew
Count 10 people in Yekaterinburg in 1975 and the same count gives 8.1 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million 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
Yekaterinburg through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yekaterinburg in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Russia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yekaterinburg 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, Yekaterinburg covered 201 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 48 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 48%, and its people have fallen by 19%.
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, 8 lived in Yekaterinburg, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: shrink Russia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Yekaterinburg; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 445 Rosario Argentina1,151,717
- 446 Touba Senegal1,151,552
- 447 Turin Italy1,150,975
- 448 Sincan Türkiye1,149,921
- 449 Yekaterinburg1,148,237
- 450 Bhubaneshwar India1,146,434
- 451 Baltimore United States1,145,219
- 452 Sargodha Pakistan1,142,723
- 453 Dublin Ireland1,142,650
In Russia, 2025
- 19 Moscow14,524,753
- 91 Saint Petersburg4,736,499
- 381 Novosibirsk1,331,432
- 432 Nizhny Novgorod1,196,944
- 449 Yekaterinburg1,148,237
- 456 Kazan1,132,941
- 479 Rostov-on-Don1,065,880
- 530 Omsk975,485
- 543 Samara955,599
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 Yekaterinburg 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 Yekaterinburg 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