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Bendaravadi — UN urban centre

182,740

Bendaravadi: 182,740 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,299 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9841; 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: 12.3654, 76.9114. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197568,966Estimate
198083,741Estimate
1985115,790Estimate
1990134,952Estimate
1995157,925Estimate
2000175,185Estimate
2005176,317Estimate
2010174,760Estimate
2015175,662Estimate
2020181,625Estimate
2025182,740Estimate
2030189,649Projection
2035192,709Projection
2040196,103Projection
2045199,686Projection
2050200,617Projection

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