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Sete Lagoas — UN urban centre

199,145

Sete Lagoas: 199,145 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,005 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7793; 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: -19.4478, -44.2341. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975112,501Estimate
1980115,415Estimate
1985131,050Estimate
1990139,171Estimate
1995151,562Estimate
2000161,278Estimate
2005174,832Estimate
2010185,808Estimate
2015192,500Estimate
2020197,049Estimate
2025199,145Estimate
2030200,408Projection
2035200,817Projection
2040200,224Projection
2045199,340Projection
2050197,250Projection

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