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Sambhal — UN urban centre

435,760

Sambhal: 435,760 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,285 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8987; 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: 28.5765, 78.5684. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975242,836Estimate
1980251,306Estimate
1985261,299Estimate
1990276,755Estimate
1995303,143Estimate
2000329,178Estimate
2005370,149Estimate
2010413,239Estimate
2015440,393Estimate
2020421,865Estimate
2025435,760Estimate
2030451,233Projection
2035466,171Projection
2040477,410Projection
2045485,670Projection
2050491,007Projection

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