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Shapar - Veraval — UN urban centre

69,890

Shapar - Veraval: 69,890 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,881 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4131; 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: 22.1567, 70.7917. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200550,368Estimate
201058,710Estimate
201564,784Estimate
202067,054Estimate
202569,890Estimate
203072,728Projection
203576,336Projection
204078,009Projection
204580,636Projection
205081,280Projection

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