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Mahesana — UN urban centre

394,304

Mahesana: 394,304 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,441 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5986; 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: 23.5997, 72.3815. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975189,789Estimate
1980199,573Estimate
1985217,531Estimate
1990243,443Estimate
1995277,079Estimate
2000305,372Estimate
2005332,511Estimate
2010355,075Estimate
2015370,319Estimate
2020376,518Estimate
2025394,304Estimate
2030410,284Projection
2035422,967Projection
2040436,118Projection
2045448,535Projection
2050456,873Projection

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