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Mahuva — UN urban centre

171,859

Mahuva: 171,859 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,530 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6248; 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: 21.0902, 71.7609. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197573,454Estimate
198083,122Estimate
198594,842Estimate
1990104,129Estimate
1995125,543Estimate
2000146,577Estimate
2005159,556Estimate
2010169,572Estimate
2015173,445Estimate
2020165,573Estimate
2025171,859Estimate
2030176,796Projection
2035180,714Projection
2040183,525Projection
2045194,266Projection
2050195,796Projection

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