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Bagalkote — UN urban centre

56,337

Bagalkote: 56,337 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,930 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9321; 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: 16.1859, 75.6998. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197569,155Estimate
198068,855Estimate
198567,534Estimate
199066,553Estimate
199565,384Estimate
200063,866Estimate
200561,666Estimate
201058,807Estimate
201556,420Estimate
202055,604Estimate
202556,337Estimate
203057,071Projection
203557,647Projection
204057,870Projection
204558,007Projection
205057,795Projection

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