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Dijon — UN urban centre

198,697

Dijon: 198,697 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,009 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4153; 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: 47.3213, 5.0334. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975164,205Estimate
1980169,890Estimate
1985178,207Estimate
1990188,463Estimate
1995188,563Estimate
2000188,206Estimate
2005187,688Estimate
2010185,678Estimate
2015195,412Estimate
2020198,606Estimate
2025198,697Estimate
2030197,928Projection
2035197,474Projection
2040196,877Projection
2045196,611Projection
2050195,701Projection

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