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Mamfe — UN urban centre

86,473

Mamfe: 86,473 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,188 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 395; 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: 5.7507, 9.3136. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199554,928Estimate
200061,657Estimate
200565,799Estimate
201071,115Estimate
201578,419Estimate
202082,704Estimate
202586,473Estimate
203090,906Projection
203595,913Projection
204099,947Projection
2045103,012Projection
2050106,180Projection

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