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Tundla — UN urban centre

280,215

Tundla: 280,215 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,072 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9049; 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: 27.2186, 78.2389. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975137,607Estimate
1980146,243Estimate
1985156,106Estimate
1990165,371Estimate
1995188,439Estimate
2000210,667Estimate
2005233,517Estimate
2010252,291Estimate
2015272,539Estimate
2020262,855Estimate
2025280,215Estimate
2030318,940Projection
2035336,722Projection
2040364,751Projection
2045387,641Projection
2050395,454Projection

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