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Nadiad — UN urban centre

391,934

Nadiad: 391,934 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,452 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6885; 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: 22.6938, 72.8604. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975250,650Estimate
1980264,065Estimate
1985287,772Estimate
1990326,224Estimate
1995350,797Estimate
2000369,029Estimate
2005382,870Estimate
2010384,421Estimate
2015380,984Estimate
2020375,978Estimate
2025391,934Estimate
2030421,661Projection
2035438,341Projection
2040455,689Projection
2045471,460Projection
2050478,516Projection

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