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Lalganj — UN urban centre

161,426

Lalganj: 161,426 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,748 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9825; 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: 26.1691, 80.9729. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975100,570Estimate
1980112,766Estimate
1985126,530Estimate
1990147,578Estimate
1995179,899Estimate
2000208,756Estimate
2005223,339Estimate
2010229,333Estimate
2015190,340Estimate
2020153,766Estimate
2025161,426Estimate
2030171,910Projection
2035184,144Projection
2040190,283Projection
2045202,425Projection
2050206,255Projection

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