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Yerevan, 
Armenia
1,089,209 people lived in Yerevan in 2025. It is the 472nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Armenia, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Yerevan governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yerevan grew
Count 10 people in Yerevan in 1975 and the same count gives 11.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1975 and 1980.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Yerevan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yerevan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Armenia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yerevan is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Armenia in 2025, 3 in all, 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, Yerevan covered 194 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 50 km² of it. That is 46 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 66%, and its people have grown by 17%.
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 Armenia
Its share of Armenia
Of every 100 people in Armenia in 2025, 37 lived in Yerevan, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Armenia, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Yerevan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 468 Solapur India1,102,702
- 469 Tianjia‘an China1,100,258
- 470 Yancheng China1,093,432
- 471 Natal Brazil1,089,473
- 472 Yerevan1,089,209
- 473 Kaifeng China1,087,088
- 474 Perth Australia1,079,374
- 475 Khulna Bangladesh1,074,134
- 476 Brisbane Australia1,071,628
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 Yerevan 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 Yerevan 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