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Cienfuegos — UN urban centre

125,459

Cienfuegos: 125,459 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,874 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1130; territory: Cuba (CUB). 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: 22.1475, -80.4406. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197581,275Estimate
198091,177Estimate
198598,910Estimate
1990108,945Estimate
1995115,004Estimate
2000120,808Estimate
2005125,792Estimate
2010129,792Estimate
2015132,455Estimate
2020127,274Estimate
2025125,459Estimate
2030123,757Projection
2035121,988Projection
2040119,788Projection
2045117,313Projection
2050114,327Projection

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