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Cordoba — UN urban centre

1,460,491

Cordoba: 1,460,491 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #346 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2381; 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: -31.4016, -64.2016. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975843,131Estimate
1980966,167Estimate
19851,059,028Estimate
19901,148,408Estimate
19951,222,243Estimate
20001,275,677Estimate
20051,320,242Estimate
20101,357,374Estimate
20151,413,900Estimate
20201,444,776Estimate
20251,460,491Estimate
20301,486,825Projection
20351,501,608Projection
20401,514,763Projection
20451,527,297Projection
20501,527,233Projection

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