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Karimnagar — UN urban centre

351,832

Karimnagar: 351,832 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,628 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10073; 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: 18.44, 79.1268. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975223,709Estimate
1980240,356Estimate
1985257,276Estimate
1990272,287Estimate
1995295,923Estimate
2000310,626Estimate
2005328,267Estimate
2010337,518Estimate
2015348,695Estimate
2020346,670Estimate
2025351,832Estimate
2030358,572Projection
2035367,691Projection
2040370,473Projection
2045372,807Projection
2050372,897Projection

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