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Tiruvannamalai — UN urban centre

342,795

Tiruvannamalai: 342,795 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,669 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10475; 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: 12.2329, 79.071. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975114,984Estimate
1980129,451Estimate
1985157,818Estimate
1990180,553Estimate
1995258,386Estimate
2000312,214Estimate
2005334,288Estimate
2010346,082Estimate
2015349,984Estimate
2020335,672Estimate
2025342,795Estimate
2030352,659Projection
2035360,667Projection
2040364,333Projection
2045366,535Projection
2050366,532Projection

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