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Araraquara — UN urban centre

210,694

Araraquara: 210,694 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,823 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6590; territory: Brazil (BRA). 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: -21.7838, -48.167. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197568,983Estimate
198085,829Estimate
198597,233Estimate
1990123,954Estimate
1995131,695Estimate
2000142,268Estimate
2005151,952Estimate
2010177,006Estimate
2015200,950Estimate
2020207,831Estimate
2025210,694Estimate
2030212,677Projection
2035213,868Projection
2040213,993Projection
2045213,552Projection
2050211,817Projection

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