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Degehabur — UN urban centre

124,739

Degehabur: 124,739 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,910 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7822; 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: 8.2208, 43.5634. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199552,703Estimate
200064,840Estimate
200575,934Estimate
201088,397Estimate
2015101,709Estimate
2020116,309Estimate
2025124,739Estimate
2030133,931Projection
2035145,706Projection
2040157,113Projection
2045166,451Projection
2050177,476Projection

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