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Zipaquirá — UN urban centre

137,580

Zipaquirá: 137,580 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,429 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4058; territory: Colombia (COL). 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: 5.027, -73.9959. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199557,474Estimate
200067,330Estimate
200579,142Estimate
201091,501Estimate
2015108,813Estimate
2020122,533Estimate
2025137,580Estimate
2030155,938Projection
2035172,332Projection
2040183,367Projection
2045190,645Projection
2050196,570Projection

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