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Francisco Morato — UN urban centre

346,105

Francisco Morato: 346,105 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,652 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7394; 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: -23.3038, -46.7342. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975130,436Estimate
1980198,818Estimate
1985215,816Estimate
1990235,107Estimate
1995250,180Estimate
2000267,609Estimate
2005290,442Estimate
2010316,050Estimate
2015338,579Estimate
2020342,067Estimate
2025346,105Estimate
2030348,698Projection
2035348,881Projection
2040347,325Projection
2045344,169Projection
2050338,928Projection

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