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Udumalaipettai — UN urban centre

145,550

Udumalaipettai: 145,550 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,191 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10049; 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: 10.5818, 77.2527. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197572,469Estimate
198079,052Estimate
198584,930Estimate
199093,982Estimate
1995106,277Estimate
2000119,990Estimate
2005136,136Estimate
2010150,836Estimate
2015156,162Estimate
2020140,922Estimate
2025145,550Estimate
2030150,223Projection
2035152,574Projection
2040158,477Projection
2045159,679Projection
2050159,920Projection

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