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Deoria — UN urban centre

586,987

Deoria: 586,987 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #930 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10549; 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: 26.5, 83.7821. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975177,099Estimate
1980178,389Estimate
1985190,909Estimate
1990205,878Estimate
1995295,194Estimate
2000379,285Estimate
2005421,517Estimate
2010460,334Estimate
2015505,219Estimate
2020550,817Estimate
2025586,987Estimate
2030623,717Projection
2035665,534Projection
2040684,992Projection
2045710,887Projection
2050749,232Projection

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