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Bodinayakkanur — UN urban centre

103,887

Bodinayakkanur: 103,887 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,955 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10089; 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: 10.0085, 77.3507. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197553,146Estimate
198058,713Estimate
198562,191Estimate
199067,576Estimate
199576,378Estimate
200086,582Estimate
200592,919Estimate
201098,115Estimate
2015101,640Estimate
2020101,360Estimate
2025103,887Estimate
2030108,008Projection
2035110,225Projection
2040111,766Projection
2045112,931Projection
2050119,067Projection

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