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Aalborg — UN urban centre

101,143

Aalborg: 101,143 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,108 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 63; territory: Denmark (DNK). 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: 57.0435, 9.9211. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197559,312Estimate
198065,079Estimate
198563,067Estimate
199068,608Estimate
199570,461Estimate
200077,581Estimate
200578,981Estimate
201085,106Estimate
201588,674Estimate
202094,468Estimate
2025101,143Estimate
2030101,925Projection
2035102,277Projection
2040102,246Projection
2045102,262Projection
2050102,115Projection

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