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Jorhat — UN urban centre

229,980

Jorhat: 229,980 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,556 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12035; 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: 26.7509, 94.2001. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975132,830Estimate
1980149,468Estimate
1985156,462Estimate
1990159,422Estimate
1995174,647Estimate
2000187,594Estimate
2005196,464Estimate
2010202,130Estimate
2015210,989Estimate
2020216,827Estimate
2025229,980Estimate
2030244,751Projection
2035268,386Projection
2040272,442Projection
2045275,593Projection
2050275,588Projection

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