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Miskolc — UN urban centre

114,342

Miskolc: 114,342 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,380 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1386; territory: Hungary (HUN). 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: 48.0969, 20.7645. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975158,899Estimate
1980172,250Estimate
1985166,106Estimate
1990160,127Estimate
1995153,814Estimate
2000147,901Estimate
2005139,186Estimate
2010130,571Estimate
2015122,213Estimate
2020113,604Estimate
2025114,342Estimate
2030114,296Projection
2035114,190Projection
2040114,045Projection
2045113,762Projection
2050113,666Projection

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