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El Estor — UN urban centre

54,824

El Estor: 54,824 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,230 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2729; territory: Guatemala (GTM). 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: 15.5307, -89.333. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
202051,357Estimate
202554,824Estimate
203058,561Projection
203561,842Projection
204064,850Projection
204568,873Projection
205071,154Projection

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