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Khandwa — UN urban centre

394,910

Khandwa: 394,910 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,435 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9085; 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: 21.8277, 76.3477. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975186,324Estimate
1980197,380Estimate
1985207,633Estimate
1990220,914Estimate
1995248,105Estimate
2000275,306Estimate
2005303,356Estimate
2010335,576Estimate
2015355,529Estimate
2020369,608Estimate
2025394,910Estimate
2030417,063Projection
2035436,502Projection
2040451,929Projection
2045463,952Projection
2050474,761Projection

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