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Zaporizhzhia, 
Ukraine
566,844 people lived in Zaporizhzhia in 2025. It is the 966th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Ukraine.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Zaporizhzhia grew
Where Zaporizhzhia had 10 people in 1975, it had 8.5 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 494,598 people in 2050.
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
Zaporizhzhia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zaporizhzhia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ukraine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Zaporizhzhia is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Ukraine in 2025, 79 in all, led by Kiev, 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, Zaporizhzhia covered 136 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 36 km² of it. That is 64 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 21%, and its people have fallen by 15%.
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 Ukraine
Its share of Ukraine
Of every 100 people in Ukraine in 2025, 1 lived in Zaporizhzhia, which is 566,844 people.
How to read this: shrink Ukraine to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Zaporizhzhia; 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
- 962 Krasnoyarsk Russia569,604
- 963 Selong Indonesia568,139
- 964 Suez Egypt567,866
- 965 Norfolk United States567,473
- 966 Zaporizhzhia566,844
- 967 Kenitra Morocco566,802
- 968 Mathura India566,188
- 969 Mỹ Tho Vietnam565,906
- 970 Kahramanmaraş Türkiye565,732
In Ukraine, 2025
- 575 Odesa899,157
- 670 Dnipro792,115
- 758 Donetsk705,832
- 863 Lviv627,280
- 966 Zaporizhzhia566,844
- 1161 Kryvyi Rih477,940
- 1342 Mykolaiv419,484
- 1516 Mariupol375,504
- 1572 Vinnytsia363,466
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 Zaporizhzhia 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 Zaporizhzhia 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