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Tenali — UN urban centre

220,719

Tenali: 220,719 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,676 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10719; 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: 16.238, 80.6463. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975124,209Estimate
1980130,691Estimate
1985148,239Estimate
1990159,939Estimate
1995170,982Estimate
2000187,298Estimate
2005204,894Estimate
2010213,243Estimate
2015219,162Estimate
2020221,112Estimate
2025220,719Estimate
2030220,331Projection
2035219,850Projection
2040218,023Projection
2045216,371Projection
2050213,417Projection

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