🌍 World Alive

Sungai Petani — UN urban centre population

Modelled live estimate · UN 2025–2026 annual growth
310,566
Recorded base: 310,566 · 2025 annual estimate

Sungai Petani has a recorded base population of 310,566 for the UN urban centre definition (2025 annual estimate). UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025; the moving counter uses UN 2025–2026 annual growth, not new population observations.

At a glance

Population definitionUN urban centre
Recorded population310,566
Country share0.86% of 35,977,838 (World Bank 2025)
World share0.004% of 8,215,424,893 (World Bank 2025)
Country database rank#14 of 31 UN urban centre records
World database rank#1389 of 5,233 UN urban centre records

Separate UN urban-centre definition

Sungai Petani UN urban centre: 310,566 people (2025), equal to the displayed UN urban centre figure of 310,566. Separate GeoNames settlement record: 544,851; the UN value is smaller (different boundaries; GeoNames population date unavailable). UN WUP 2025 Degree of Urbanisation; not a municipal/province boundary. Association: name/country/coordinates matched; boundary relationship unverified. No containment claim is made.

Comparable database records

Same definition label: UN urban centre. Dates/boundaries may still differ; this is not a harmonised international city ranking. Ratios use 310,566 as denominator.

PlacePopulationvs Sungai Petani
Campos dos Goytacazes310,590+0.0%
Aktau310,607+0.0%
Gorgān310,644+0.0%
Cluj-Napoca310,650+0.0%
Kanggye310,432−0.0%

About these numbers

Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025. Reference: 2025 annual estimate. Live method: exponential projection from modelling anchor 2025-01-01 using UN 2025–2026 annual growth (+0.51% per year). This anchor is a modelling convention, not an observed population date. Tiles, ranks and comparisons use the recorded base figure 310,566, not the ticking estimate. Country/world denominators are World Bank values and can differ in date and method from local/UN values. Ranks cover only records with the same definition label in this database, not all cities in the world.

Harmonised UN urban-centre ranking · Embed

What changed during your lifetime?

Turn these figures into a private, five-scene personal world story.

Which city boundary are you reading?

This page is a structured reference entry. Its sources, geographic definition and reference dates determine what the figures mean; it is not independent reporting about the causes of change. Read the accompanying explanation before comparing different places or vintages.

Urban and administrative population explained →

Interpretation reviewed 12 October 2026. Underlying reference years are stated on the page; this is not a fresh census or dataset refresh.