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Areraj — UN urban centre

261,142

Areraj: 261,142 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,234 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10829; 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: 26.5533, 84.6696. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
2005120,234Estimate
2010141,731Estimate
2015146,901Estimate
2020243,842Estimate
2025261,142Estimate
2030281,280Projection
2035299,731Projection
2040330,475Projection
2045346,082Projection
2050425,409Projection

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