Virudhunagar — UN urban centre
Virudhunagar: 156,655 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,866 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10295; 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: 9.5881, 77.9586. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 106,514 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 112,900 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 118,023 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 123,813 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 133,723 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 140,494 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 146,915 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 148,138 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 151,563 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 152,314 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 156,655 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 160,998 | Projection |
| 2035 | 164,273 | Projection |
| 2040 | 168,046 | Projection |
| 2045 | 169,650 | Projection |
| 2050 | 170,234 | Projection |
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