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Fomboni — UN urban centre

236,750

Fomboni: 236,750 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,478 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 304; territory: Comoros (COM). 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: -12.2873, 43.7452. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197579,470Estimate
198089,270Estimate
1985112,331Estimate
1990126,415Estimate
1995138,298Estimate
2000149,717Estimate
2005164,878Estimate
2010181,504Estimate
2015199,582Estimate
2020215,034Estimate
2025236,750Estimate
2030271,079Projection
2035294,205Projection
2040318,038Projection
2045342,524Projection
2050366,784Projection

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