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Heilbronn — UN urban centre

115,510

Heilbronn: 115,510 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,318 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4238; 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: 49.1514, 9.2161. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197597,622Estimate
1980100,785Estimate
1985103,335Estimate
1990106,077Estimate
1995113,269Estimate
2000111,465Estimate
2005112,401Estimate
2010109,216Estimate
2015109,446Estimate
2020114,198Estimate
2025115,510Estimate
2030114,431Projection
2035113,794Projection
2040113,146Projection
2045112,502Projection
2050111,663Projection

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