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Sancti Spiritus — UN urban centre

106,466

Sancti Spiritus: 106,466 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,801 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1452; 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: 21.9313, -79.4417. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975100,521Estimate
1980100,091Estimate
1985100,952Estimate
1990101,841Estimate
1995104,952Estimate
2000107,250Estimate
2005110,684Estimate
2010113,025Estimate
2015113,356Estimate
2020107,965Estimate
2025106,466Estimate
2030104,993Projection
2035103,456Projection
2040101,553Projection
204599,418Projection
205096,850Projection

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