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Vaniyambadi — UN urban centre

201,496

Vaniyambadi: 201,496 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,961 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10325; 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: 12.6816, 78.6192. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198080,717Estimate
1985107,330Estimate
1990123,884Estimate
1995185,667Estimate
2000219,754Estimate
2005229,401Estimate
2010230,345Estimate
2015221,617Estimate
2020191,450Estimate
2025201,496Estimate
2030213,281Projection
2035219,355Projection
2040225,714Projection
2045229,431Projection
2050231,766Projection

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