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Ajaccio — UN urban centre

60,243

Ajaccio: 60,243 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,279 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4902; 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: 41.9319, 8.7444. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
201557,035Estimate
202057,796Estimate
202560,243Estimate
203064,089Projection
203566,964Projection
204069,179Projection
204571,115Projection
205072,819Projection

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