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Buldhana — UN urban centre

206,544

Buldhana: 206,544 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,887 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9153; 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: 20.5289, 76.1816. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197591,651Estimate
198097,178Estimate
1985104,704Estimate
1990114,542Estimate
1995137,936Estimate
2000160,011Estimate
2005177,787Estimate
2010191,908Estimate
2015204,734Estimate
2020200,583Estimate
2025206,544Estimate
2030211,069Projection
2035215,063Projection
2040217,739Projection
2045219,874Projection
2050220,685Projection

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