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Perinthalmanna — UN urban centre

202,201

Perinthalmanna: 202,201 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,945 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9733; 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: 10.9752, 76.2137. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197555,526Estimate
198079,990Estimate
198599,198Estimate
1990118,594Estimate
1995163,263Estimate
2000219,125Estimate
2005236,956Estimate
2010209,530Estimate
2015210,244Estimate
2020193,070Estimate
2025202,201Estimate
2030251,272Projection
2035263,125Projection
2040269,708Projection
2045274,249Projection
2050277,139Projection

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