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Tinsukia — UN urban centre

193,952

Tinsukia: 193,952 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,096 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12067; 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: 27.488, 95.3528. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975109,237Estimate
1980119,249Estimate
1985126,719Estimate
1990133,534Estimate
1995146,599Estimate
2000158,019Estimate
2005168,771Estimate
2010178,047Estimate
2015186,463Estimate
2020188,952Estimate
2025193,952Estimate
2030199,098Projection
2035203,752Projection
2040208,597Projection
2045210,187Projection
2050212,973Projection

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