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Campos dos Goytacazes — UN urban centre

310,590

Campos dos Goytacazes: 310,590 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,851 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8159; 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: -21.7519, -41.3196. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975107,800Estimate
1980117,207Estimate
1985166,227Estimate
1990220,343Estimate
1995247,990Estimate
2000262,573Estimate
2005279,016Estimate
2010295,992Estimate
2015304,606Estimate
2020307,527Estimate
2025310,590Estimate
2030312,356Projection
2035312,738Projection
2040311,560Projection
2045309,154Projection
2050304,876Projection

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