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Iserlohn — UN urban centre

57,216

Iserlohn: 57,216 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,766 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2320; territory: Germany (DEU). 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: 51.3762, 7.6735. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197597,685Estimate
198099,086Estimate
198597,151Estimate
1990123,187Estimate
1995124,733Estimate
2000120,451Estimate
2005115,704Estimate
201086,693Estimate
201557,447Estimate
202056,882Estimate
202557,216Estimate
203056,365Projection
203555,697Projection
204055,025Projection
204554,387Projection
205053,655Projection

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