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Siwan — UN urban centre

300,919

Siwan: 300,919 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,905 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10787; 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: 26.2222, 84.3592. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975120,214Estimate
1980125,319Estimate
1985130,436Estimate
1990138,926Estimate
1995164,875Estimate
2000195,358Estimate
2005222,264Estimate
2010247,115Estimate
2015266,377Estimate
2020285,168Estimate
2025300,919Estimate
2030322,850Projection
2035338,233Projection
2040348,254Projection
2045372,971Projection
2050384,884Projection

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