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Ciénaga — UN urban centre

114,586

Ciénaga: 114,586 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,368 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4344; 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: 11.005, -74.2502. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197565,769Estimate
198068,681Estimate
198571,478Estimate
199073,266Estimate
199576,826Estimate
200082,989Estimate
200587,071Estimate
2010102,824Estimate
2015103,987Estimate
2020105,779Estimate
2025114,586Estimate
2030122,360Projection
2035128,521Projection
2040133,388Projection
2045136,579Projection
2050140,507Projection

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