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Pukhrayan — UN urban centre

117,969

Pukhrayan: 117,969 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,214 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9529; 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: 26.2214, 79.8335. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198551,842Estimate
199055,021Estimate
199583,733Estimate
2000100,124Estimate
2005110,372Estimate
2010120,900Estimate
2015126,869Estimate
2020112,670Estimate
2025117,969Estimate
2030123,392Projection
2035126,965Projection
2040129,759Projection
2045131,972Projection
2050133,390Projection

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