What is the population of Samara?
Samara has a city population of 1,163,399. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.
City profile · Russia · Europe
Samara
City population
1,163,399
#9
in Russia
#1
in Samara Oblast
#466
worldwide
53.208, 50.136 · 855 km from Moscow
About Samara
The world's 466th-largest city, Samara holds 1,163,399 people and accounts for 0.8% of Russia's population. It stands 855 km from Moscow and ranks ninth among the 980 listed Russian cities. The city dominates Samara Oblast, where it is the largest of 13 municipalities; Novokuybyshevsk, its nearest neighbour at 18 km away, has 111,800 people.
This summary is AI-generated from the figures on this page. The figures themselves come from the sources cited beside each value.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Rank in region
#1of 13
Elevation
107 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Europe/Samara
Coordinates
53.208, 50.136
Record updated
2026-04-14
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 980 in RussiaClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.
Compared with the World's Largest Cities
City-proper population against the fifteen largest cities in the dataset.
| Name | City population |
|---|---|
| Shanghai | 24.9M |
| Beijing | 19M |
| Shenzhen | 17.5M |
| Guangzhou | 16.1M |
| Kinshasa | 16M |
| Istanbul | 15.7M |
| Lagos | 15.4M |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 14M |
| Chengdu | 13.6M |
| Lahore | 13M |
| Mumbai | 12.7M |
| São Paulo | 12.4M |
| Mexico City | 12.3M |
| Karachi | 11.6M |
| Tianjin | 11.1M |
| Samara | 1.16M |
Samara Population FAQ
Where is Samara?
Samara is in Samara Oblast, Russia, 855 km from the capital, Moscow. Its coordinates are 53.208, 50.136.
How big is Samara compared with other cities in Russia?
It is the 9th largest of the 980 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Russia, holding 0.8% of the national population.