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Chikkamagaluru — UN urban centre

147,811

Chikkamagaluru: 147,811 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,108 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9503; 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: 13.323, 75.7768. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198051,759Estimate
198562,273Estimate
199077,553Estimate
1995118,869Estimate
2000146,057Estimate
2005158,818Estimate
2010161,347Estimate
2015159,081Estimate
2020142,158Estimate
2025147,811Estimate
2030153,468Projection
2035159,755Projection
2040165,261Projection
2045168,134Projection
2050169,996Projection

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