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Jalpaiguri — UN urban centre

642,158

Jalpaiguri: 642,158 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #840 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11623; 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: 26.527, 88.7167. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975384,849Estimate
1980412,118Estimate
1985429,240Estimate
1990460,117Estimate
1995516,486Estimate
2000560,973Estimate
2005591,567Estimate
2010627,151Estimate
2015631,842Estimate
2020610,250Estimate
2025642,158Estimate
2030680,302Projection
2035708,285Projection
2040733,616Projection
2045757,223Projection
2050791,216Projection

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