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Lodz's 2024 population is now estimated at 655,300. In 1950, the population of Lodz was 608,144 . Lodz experienced a decrease of -5,277 residents over the past year, marking an annual decline of -0.8%.These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects.
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. As of 2023, Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's fourth largest city. Łódź first appears in records in 14th-century.
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Łódź, city, capital of Łódzkie województwo (province), central Poland. It lies on the northwestern edge of the Łódź Highlands, on the watershed of the Vistula and Oder rivers, 81 miles (130 km) southwest of Warsaw. Łódź is mentioned in 14th-century records as a village.
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Dec 19, 2020 · Lodz Urban Area Population History. 1950 608,000. 1951 625,000
By the outbreak of WWI Łódź rates as one of the most densely populated cities on the planet with a population of approximately 13,000 people per square kilometre. 1915 sees the city come under German occupation though three years later the end of the war restores Polish independence.
At that time, approximately four-fifths of the city's entire population was German. A Diverse City of Workers The textile boom created three major groups of people in the city - Germans, Jews and Poles. The city was Russia's main centre for textile production and large numbers of the industrialists were Jewish.
Lodz is the third largest urban centre in Poland with a population of about 742,000. Although the history of Lodz goes back a long way (it obtained city rights in the 15th century), its greatest development and later boom happened in the 19th century, when Lodz became a centre of the cloth industry.