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Mannheim — UN urban centre

448,203

Mannheim: 448,203 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,241 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3447; 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: 49.4847, 8.4743. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975423,448Estimate
1980398,819Estimate
1985363,921Estimate
1990403,932Estimate
1995423,478Estimate
2000414,859Estimate
2005415,420Estimate
2010394,482Estimate
2015395,896Estimate
2020444,339Estimate
2025448,203Estimate
2030442,789Projection
2035439,345Projection
2040435,862Projection
2045432,592Projection
2050428,575Projection

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