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Guaratinguetá — UN urban centre

88,375

Guaratinguetá: 88,375 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,028 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7712; 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: -22.8004, -45.1936. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198058,872Estimate
198565,308Estimate
199072,387Estimate
199575,860Estimate
200079,764Estimate
200582,298Estimate
201084,797Estimate
201586,919Estimate
202087,173Estimate
202588,375Estimate
203089,208Projection
203589,621Projection
204089,586Projection
204589,214Projection
205088,301Projection

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