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Lalitpur — UN urban centre

260,680

Lalitpur: 260,680 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,240 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9343; 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: 24.6909, 78.4128. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197591,012Estimate
198099,121Estimate
1985106,532Estimate
1990120,522Estimate
1995156,997Estimate
2000195,157Estimate
2005224,852Estimate
2010248,750Estimate
2015264,271Estimate
2020252,759Estimate
2025260,680Estimate
2030270,170Projection
2035276,955Projection
2040283,590Projection
2045287,450Projection
2050289,643Projection

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