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Flensburg — UN urban centre

74,562

Flensburg: 74,562 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,354 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3803; 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: 54.7927, 9.4354. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197566,468Estimate
198066,182Estimate
198566,598Estimate
199068,256Estimate
199571,822Estimate
200072,059Estimate
200571,778Estimate
201070,082Estimate
201572,364Estimate
202073,999Estimate
202574,562Estimate
203073,582Projection
203571,484Projection
204069,394Projection
204568,852Projection
205068,192Projection

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