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Santiago del Estero — UN urban centre

393,257

Santiago del Estero: 393,257 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,447 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1993; territory: Argentina (ARG). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: -27.7852, -64.2612. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197595,491Estimate
1980113,839Estimate
1985188,619Estimate
1990225,660Estimate
1995259,634Estimate
2000294,969Estimate
2005313,053Estimate
2010334,200Estimate
2015364,204Estimate
2020384,305Estimate
2025393,257Estimate
2030400,613Projection
2035411,637Projection
2040415,715Projection
2045418,959Projection
2050423,793Projection

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