Bangor — UN urban centre
Bangor: 62,978 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,835 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 379; territory: United Kingdom (GBR). 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: 54.6518, -5.6644. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 54,054 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 56,336 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 57,827 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 61,341 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 62,978 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 64,196 | Projection |
| 2035 | 65,082 | Projection |
| 2040 | 68,297 | Projection |
| 2045 | 68,967 | Projection |
| 2050 | 69,426 | Projection |
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