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Clermont-Ferrand — UN urban centre

188,912

Clermont-Ferrand: 188,912 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,185 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3704; 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: 45.7785, 3.0951. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975183,503Estimate
1980183,688Estimate
1985182,983Estimate
1990181,891Estimate
1995182,566Estimate
2000183,915Estimate
2005183,744Estimate
2010182,239Estimate
2015186,472Estimate
2020186,551Estimate
2025188,912Estimate
2030190,454Projection
2035191,783Projection
2040192,971Projection
2045194,020Projection
2050194,433Projection

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