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Bulandshahr — UN urban centre

543,659

Bulandshahr: 543,659 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,013 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8799; 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: 28.4062, 77.8528. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975293,382Estimate
1980318,657Estimate
1985343,144Estimate
1990366,788Estimate
1995415,587Estimate
2000463,686Estimate
2005515,559Estimate
2010558,609Estimate
2015578,162Estimate
2020511,281Estimate
2025543,659Estimate
2030583,264Projection
2035614,049Projection
2040639,168Projection
2045658,866Projection
2050674,360Projection

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