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Regensburg — UN urban centre

149,723

Regensburg: 149,723 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,048 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5418; 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: 49.0177, 12.0982. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975121,662Estimate
1980122,515Estimate
1985115,196Estimate
1990110,525Estimate
1995114,158Estimate
2000108,852Estimate
2005113,425Estimate
2010114,989Estimate
2015131,744Estimate
2020146,245Estimate
2025149,723Estimate
2030150,102Projection
2035150,585Projection
2040151,055Projection
2045151,359Projection
2050151,402Projection

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