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Jigani — UN urban centre

301,763

Jigani: 301,763 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,901 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10047; territory: India (IND). 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: 12.8129, 77.6742. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199052,353Estimate
199579,850Estimate
2000107,481Estimate
2005200,448Estimate
2010256,559Estimate
2015290,424Estimate
2020280,204Estimate
2025301,763Estimate
2030315,895Projection
2035327,017Projection
2040333,158Projection
2045353,641Projection
2050356,344Projection

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