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Biswan — UN urban centre

131,106

Biswan: 131,106 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,661 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9689; 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: 27.494, 80.9959. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975180,042Estimate
1980178,953Estimate
1985178,393Estimate
1990181,370Estimate
1995210,285Estimate
2000238,957Estimate
2005266,754Estimate
2010293,871Estimate
2015257,159Estimate
2020119,688Estimate
2025131,106Estimate
2030140,234Projection
2035145,486Projection
2040165,062Projection
2045169,086Projection
2050172,092Projection

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