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Governador Valadares — UN urban centre

239,060

Governador Valadares: 239,060 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,452 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8068; 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: -18.8693, -41.959. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975122,430Estimate
1980145,739Estimate
1985165,775Estimate
1990191,132Estimate
1995202,011Estimate
2000211,558Estimate
2005219,049Estimate
2010223,481Estimate
2015231,470Estimate
2020235,194Estimate
2025239,060Estimate
2030240,477Projection
2035240,985Projection
2040240,291Projection
2045239,272Projection
2050236,804Projection

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