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Tübingen — UN urban centre

66,535

Tübingen: 66,535 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,315 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4070; 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: 48.523, 9.058. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197555,724Estimate
198055,434Estimate
198555,724Estimate
199057,080Estimate
199559,240Estimate
200061,646Estimate
200562,605Estimate
201063,888Estimate
201565,427Estimate
202065,678Estimate
202566,535Estimate
203066,015Projection
203565,730Projection
204065,439Projection
204565,147Projection
205064,742Projection

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