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Jhunjhunu — UN urban centre

198,109

Jhunjhunu: 198,109 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,021 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7440; 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: 28.1213, 75.3936. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975107,751Estimate
1980110,089Estimate
1985111,659Estimate
1990120,136Estimate
1995146,975Estimate
2000175,434Estimate
2005182,423Estimate
2010187,380Estimate
2015195,374Estimate
2020191,171Estimate
2025198,109Estimate
2030208,166Projection
2035216,035Projection
2040222,768Projection
2045227,003Projection
2050229,872Projection

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