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Badarpur — UN urban centre

157,814

Badarpur: 157,814 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,839 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12003; 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: 24.8704, 92.5716. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197568,402Estimate
198076,431Estimate
198579,982Estimate
199083,621Estimate
199599,310Estimate
2000144,454Estimate
2005155,168Estimate
2010160,464Estimate
2015159,927Estimate
2020151,924Estimate
2025157,814Estimate
2030172,097Projection
2035191,152Projection
2040196,464Projection
2045200,415Projection
2050204,699Projection

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