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Karanja — UN urban centre

122,638

Karanja: 122,638 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,994 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9479; 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: 20.4829, 77.4857. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197562,869Estimate
198062,535Estimate
198563,802Estimate
199066,643Estimate
199577,752Estimate
200087,596Estimate
200596,506Estimate
2010106,074Estimate
2015117,036Estimate
2020119,665Estimate
2025122,638Estimate
2030125,614Projection
2035128,204Projection
2040130,008Projection
2045131,370Projection
2050131,941Projection

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