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Mahbubnagar — UN urban centre

252,285

Mahbubnagar: 252,285 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,309 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9881; 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: 16.7482, 78.0009. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975136,710Estimate
1980168,422Estimate
1985184,998Estimate
1990196,754Estimate
1995203,984Estimate
2000204,376Estimate
2005216,056Estimate
2010231,487Estimate
2015239,006Estimate
2020243,078Estimate
2025252,285Estimate
2030257,640Projection
2035261,920Projection
2040267,660Projection
2045269,628Projection
2050269,972Projection

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