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Royal Tunbridge Wells — UN urban centre

67,528

Royal Tunbridge Wells: 67,528 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,174 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6239; 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: 51.1395, 0.2636. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
201050,518Estimate
201552,887Estimate
202064,256Estimate
202567,528Estimate
203070,349Projection
203574,253Projection
204080,363Projection
204582,516Projection
205084,417Projection

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