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Lumding — UN urban centre

155,479

Lumding: 155,479 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,898 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12011; 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: 25.7549, 93.1743. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197589,249Estimate
198093,982Estimate
198598,707Estimate
1990100,909Estimate
1995112,101Estimate
2000126,863Estimate
2005138,863Estimate
2010149,947Estimate
2015154,728Estimate
2020149,388Estimate
2025155,479Estimate
2030161,820Projection
2035166,002Projection
2040170,776Projection
2045173,309Projection
2050174,799Projection

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