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Dalla — UN urban centre

272,778

Dalla: 272,778 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,134 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10597; 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: 24.4577, 83.0061. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975175,662Estimate
1980233,651Estimate
1985247,711Estimate
1990271,418Estimate
1995292,788Estimate
2000311,532Estimate
2005325,005Estimate
2010319,048Estimate
2015297,731Estimate
2020257,297Estimate
2025272,778Estimate
2030288,256Projection
2035303,573Projection
2040314,383Projection
2045328,920Projection
2050335,500Projection

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