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Oviedo / Uviéu — UN urban centre

214,566

Oviedo / Uviéu: 214,566 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,758 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2387; 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: 43.3663, -5.8468. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975164,400Estimate
1980180,831Estimate
1985186,650Estimate
1990192,530Estimate
1995203,236Estimate
2000202,937Estimate
2005202,335Estimate
2010204,122Estimate
2015207,108Estimate
2020217,227Estimate
2025214,566Estimate
2030209,711Projection
2035205,695Projection
2040201,216Projection
2045196,927Projection
2050191,609Projection

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