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Santo Tomé — UN urban centre

80,759

Santo Tomé: 80,759 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,722 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3219; 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: -31.6771, -60.7709. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200054,767Estimate
200561,499Estimate
201065,863Estimate
201572,578Estimate
202079,655Estimate
202580,759Estimate
203081,994Projection
203582,954Projection
204083,735Projection
204584,290Projection
205084,395Projection

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