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Shano — UN urban centre

53,238

Shano: 53,238 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,555 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6986; 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: 9.3285, 39.2904. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
202553,238Estimate
203064,342Projection
203575,073Projection
204090,047Projection
2045101,621Projection
2050113,256Projection

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