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Sandila — UN urban centre

130,012

Sandila: 130,012 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,695 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9619; 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: 27.0677, 80.5143. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975203,963Estimate
1980202,336Estimate
1985198,174Estimate
1990200,848Estimate
1995229,817Estimate
2000260,091Estimate
2005288,999Estimate
2010311,142Estimate
2015259,603Estimate
2020125,969Estimate
2025130,012Estimate
2030139,148Projection
2035143,270Projection
2040150,215Projection
2045153,156Projection
2050160,401Projection

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