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Sikandarabad — UN urban centre

250,310

Sikandarabad: 250,310 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,329 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8751; 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: 28.463, 77.6823. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197583,391Estimate
198085,252Estimate
198588,224Estimate
1990143,422Estimate
1995163,331Estimate
2000185,141Estimate
2005206,686Estimate
2010225,576Estimate
2015240,112Estimate
2020238,034Estimate
2025250,310Estimate
2030262,590Projection
2035278,105Projection
2040322,981Projection
2045336,582Projection
2050344,340Projection

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