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Girón — UN urban centre

181,321

Girón: 181,321 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,325 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4605; 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: 7.0708, -73.1689. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199561,126Estimate
200079,838Estimate
200599,409Estimate
2010120,633Estimate
2015145,859Estimate
2020171,859Estimate
2025181,321Estimate
2030190,727Projection
2035197,180Projection
2040205,840Projection
2045207,301Projection
2050207,292Projection

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