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Padrauna — UN urban centre

431,649

Padrauna: 431,649 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,296 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10553; 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: 26.9008, 83.9919. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197588,424Estimate
198090,553Estimate
198592,227Estimate
199094,664Estimate
1995132,029Estimate
2000158,730Estimate
2005194,033Estimate
2010231,243Estimate
2015270,788Estimate
2020388,014Estimate
2025431,649Estimate
2030486,282Projection
2035523,393Projection
2040551,714Projection
2045616,773Projection
2050633,757Projection

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