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Shivpuri — UN urban centre

257,663

Shivpuri: 257,663 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,264 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9091; 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: 25.424, 77.6582. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975111,385Estimate
1980120,066Estimate
1985136,929Estimate
1990150,512Estimate
1995178,317Estimate
2000205,811Estimate
2005225,467Estimate
2010243,574Estimate
2015254,630Estimate
2020246,888Estimate
2025257,663Estimate
2030265,416Projection
2035273,757Projection
2040285,071Projection
2045289,139Projection
2050291,467Projection

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