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Vizianagaram — UN urban centre

312,315

Vizianagaram: 312,315 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,839 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11293; 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: 18.1133, 83.4053. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975218,237Estimate
1980241,000Estimate
1985267,640Estimate
1990294,275Estimate
1995301,457Estimate
2000303,127Estimate
2005310,735Estimate
2010316,595Estimate
2015315,127Estimate
2020308,822Estimate
2025312,315Estimate
2030315,814Projection
2035318,746Projection
2040321,241Projection
2045322,151Projection
2050321,123Projection

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