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Amiens — UN urban centre

107,741

Amiens: 107,741 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,736 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3112; territory: France (FRA). 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: 49.8919, 2.3013. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975115,374Estimate
1980115,264Estimate
1985115,655Estimate
1990116,426Estimate
1995115,642Estimate
2000114,159Estimate
2005112,947Estimate
2010110,906Estimate
2015110,329Estimate
2020105,629Estimate
2025107,741Estimate
2030110,552Projection
2035110,720Projection
2040110,807Projection
2045110,861Projection
2050110,553Projection

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