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Farrukhabad — UN urban centre

615,831

Farrukhabad: 615,831 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #874 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9349; 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: 27.3807, 79.597. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975447,372Estimate
1980492,812Estimate
1985540,797Estimate
1990594,004Estimate
1995662,861Estimate
2000730,394Estimate
2005811,777Estimate
2010882,244Estimate
2015830,939Estimate
2020576,143Estimate
2025615,831Estimate
2030656,091Projection
2035685,017Projection
2040721,850Projection
2045743,763Projection
2050756,748Projection

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