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Río Cuarto — UN urban centre

145,907

Río Cuarto: 145,907 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,177 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2670; 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: -33.1258, -64.35. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197580,596Estimate
198081,435Estimate
198585,294Estimate
199090,230Estimate
1995100,378Estimate
2000113,852Estimate
2005121,631Estimate
2010130,542Estimate
2015139,911Estimate
2020144,783Estimate
2025145,907Estimate
2030147,268Projection
2035149,780Projection
2040151,993Projection
2045152,621Projection
2050152,434Projection

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