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Golaghat — UN urban centre

159,881

Golaghat: 159,881 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,787 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12029; 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: 26.5124, 93.971. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975102,963Estimate
1980109,592Estimate
1985111,531Estimate
1990111,151Estimate
1995123,792Estimate
2000135,181Estimate
2005143,970Estimate
2010148,362Estimate
2015150,997Estimate
2020151,622Estimate
2025159,881Estimate
2030162,733Projection
2035166,616Projection
2040170,719Projection
2045173,226Projection
2050173,213Projection

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