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Troyes — UN urban centre

100,862

Troyes: 100,862 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,126 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3938; 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: 48.2943, 4.0678. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975104,499Estimate
1980102,167Estimate
198599,925Estimate
199097,924Estimate
199599,190Estimate
2000101,272Estimate
2005102,509Estimate
2010101,458Estimate
2015102,517Estimate
202099,044Estimate
2025100,862Estimate
2030100,745Projection
2035100,680Projection
2040100,541Projection
2045100,380Projection
205098,396Projection

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