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Maghnia — UN urban centre

116,165

Maghnia: 116,165 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,284 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 222; territory: Algeria (DZA). 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: 34.8507, -1.737. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199056,336Estimate
199567,497Estimate
200076,274Estimate
200582,394Estimate
201091,886Estimate
2015100,782Estimate
2020108,540Estimate
2025116,165Estimate
2030119,037Projection
2035122,912Projection
2040135,716Projection
2045140,471Projection
2050143,437Projection

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