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Quiha — UN urban centre

243,110

Quiha: 243,110 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,407 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6867; territory: Ethiopia (ETH). 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: 13.4775, 39.5414. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197563,909Estimate
198071,604Estimate
198585,675Estimate
1990101,525Estimate
1995120,945Estimate
2000140,069Estimate
2005138,068Estimate
2010163,186Estimate
2015189,030Estimate
2020214,330Estimate
2025243,110Estimate
2030290,426Projection
2035323,617Projection
2040357,265Projection
2045392,232Projection
2050431,379Projection

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