Gorakhpur — UN urban centre
Gorakhpur: 1,519,206 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #330 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10399; 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: 26.7642, 83.3786. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 697,164 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 746,192 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 809,436 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 872,070 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,000,770 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,124,172 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,234,594 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,328,768 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,408,643 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,447,789 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,519,206 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,582,312 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,631,995 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,667,816 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,708,079 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,728,295 | Projection |
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