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Banyo — UN urban centre

98,101

Banyo: 98,101 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,304 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2475; territory: Cameroon (CMR). 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: 6.7479, 11.8034. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200554,855Estimate
201064,409Estimate
201575,069Estimate
202093,814Estimate
202598,101Estimate
2030101,723Projection
2035104,387Projection
2040107,596Projection
2045111,568Projection
2050115,824Projection

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