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Gursahaiganj — UN urban centre

102,813

Gursahaiganj: 102,813 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,018 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9409; 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: 27.1175, 79.7322. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197596,217Estimate
1980102,274Estimate
1985110,193Estimate
1990115,463Estimate
1995120,857Estimate
2000125,895Estimate
2005137,213Estimate
2010147,371Estimate
2015135,032Estimate
202092,588Estimate
2025102,813Estimate
2030108,668Projection
2035112,921Projection
2040117,967Projection
2045159,796Projection
2050163,184Projection

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