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Cádiz — UN urban centre

117,874

Cádiz: 117,874 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,217 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1654; territory: Spain (ESP). 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: 36.5179, -6.2823. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975144,232Estimate
1980155,315Estimate
1985156,978Estimate
1990157,009Estimate
1995146,861Estimate
2000135,932Estimate
2005129,563Estimate
2010124,864Estimate
2015120,357Estimate
2020118,300Estimate
2025117,874Estimate
2030116,243Projection
2035114,787Projection
2040113,072Projection
2045122,053Projection
2050119,418Projection

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