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Kadayanallur — UN urban centre

85,741

Kadayanallur: 85,741 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,262 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10135; 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: 9.0832, 77.3474. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197558,469Estimate
198061,302Estimate
198563,916Estimate
199066,046Estimate
199572,114Estimate
200077,633Estimate
200580,347Estimate
201081,610Estimate
201582,042Estimate
202083,532Estimate
202585,741Estimate
203087,951Projection
203589,528Projection
204090,556Projection
204591,232Projection
205091,360Projection

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