🇷🇺 Cities in Russia — API & JSON data

Russia has 65,661 cities in the Geomelon dataset, one of the more densely covered countries in the API. The most populous is Moscow, at 13,274,285 people. Query it by name, region, or coordinates, with translations in 50 languages.

Data updated: 2026-07-14

Live demo

Type to search Russia cities…

Top 10 cities by population

City	Region	Population
Moscow	—	13,274,285
Saint Petersburg	—	5,652,922
Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk Oblast	1,637,266
Yekaterinburg	Sverdlovsk Oblast	1,468,833
Kazan	—	1,329,825
Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	1,198,245
Chelyabinsk	Chelyabinsk Oblast	1,176,770
Krasnodar	Krasnodar Krai	1,154,885
Samara	Samara Oblast	1,154,223
Rostov-on-Don	—	1,135,968

Sample API response

GET /cities/search?countryCode=ru&sort=population_desc&limit=3

[
  {
    "id": "918d9e4e-ea07-4877-b697-f664feab4d9d",
    "name": "Moscow",
    "population": 13274285,
    "countryName": "Russia",
    "countryCode": "RU",
    "countryEmoji": "🇷🇺",
    "regionName": null
  },
  {
    "id": "f6954677-c6d2-462d-8449-5f1ced236002",
    "name": "Saint Petersburg",
    "population": 5652922,
    "countryName": "Russia",
    "countryCode": "RU",
    "countryEmoji": "🇷🇺",
    "regionName": null
  },
  {
    "id": "2849a2ef-ecbe-4396-8266-00a1cc73f92b",
    "name": "Novosibirsk",
    "population": 1637266,
    "countryName": "Russia",
    "countryCode": "RU",
    "countryEmoji": "🇷🇺",
    "regionName": "Novosibirsk Oblast"
  }
]

Try it

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://geomelon.p.rapidapi.com/cities/search?countryCode=ru&sort=population_desc&limit=10' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: geomelon.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

const res = await fetch(
  'https://geomelon.p.rapidapi.com/cities/search?countryCode=ru&sort=population_desc&limit=10',
  {
    headers: {
      'x-rapidapi-host': 'geomelon.p.rapidapi.com',
      'x-rapidapi-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    },
  },
)
const cities = await res.json()

Multilingual city names

City names in Russia are available in 50 languages.

en: Moscow
zh: 莫斯科
ar: موسكو

Free dataset

Prefer a static file? Download 5,000 Russia cities as JSON (768 KB, no API key) from the Russia cities dataset page.

FAQ

How many cities in Russia does the API return?

Geomelon currently has 65,661 cities in Russia across 89 regions. Results are paginated, up to 100 per request.

Is there a free tier?

Yes. RapidAPI's free tier covers a fixed number of requests per month with no credit card required. There is also a free, no-key city-autocomplete endpoint (the demo above) for prefix search.

Can I get Russia city names in other languages?

Yes — city names in Russia are available in 50 languages. Pass the languages you want via the preferredLanguages parameter, most-preferred first.

Do I need an API key?

The main search and lookup endpoints require a free RapidAPI key. The prefix-search autocomplete endpoint used in the demo above is public and does not require a key.

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