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Rüsselsheim am Main — UN urban centre

83,083

Rüsselsheim am Main: 83,083 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,491 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3341; 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: 49.9937, 8.4322. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197558,128Estimate
198057,925Estimate
198558,301Estimate
199059,779Estimate
199563,720Estimate
200064,898Estimate
200566,030Estimate
201080,457Estimate
201582,506Estimate
202082,040Estimate
202583,083Estimate
203082,406Projection
203581,954Projection
204081,495Projection
204581,017Projection
205080,400Projection

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