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Nagercoil — UN urban centre

460,826

Nagercoil: 460,826 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,209 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10193; 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: 8.177, 77.4257. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975243,084Estimate
1980264,291Estimate
1985283,860Estimate
1990302,667Estimate
1995329,645Estimate
2000353,380Estimate
2005371,947Estimate
2010402,909Estimate
2015433,180Estimate
2020442,316Estimate
2025460,826Estimate
2030477,009Projection
2035487,469Projection
2040498,577Projection
2045503,818Projection
2050511,032Projection

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