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Rajnandgaon — UN urban centre

223,243

Rajnandgaon: 223,243 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,646 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10385; 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: 21.0953, 81.0324. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975101,080Estimate
1980106,143Estimate
1985110,321Estimate
1990116,821Estimate
1995136,897Estimate
2000160,302Estimate
2005177,789Estimate
2010191,454Estimate
2015205,979Estimate
2020212,905Estimate
2025223,243Estimate
2030234,822Projection
2035241,717Projection
2040248,635Projection
2045255,140Projection
2050264,576Projection

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