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Al Midhatiya — UN urban centre

129,202

Al Midhatiya: 129,202 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,730 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4250; territory: Iraq (IRQ). 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: 32.3884, 44.6658. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200550,294Estimate
201056,422Estimate
2015106,297Estimate
2020115,440Estimate
2025129,202Estimate
2030142,998Projection
2035158,605Projection
2040180,291Projection
2045200,680Projection
2050227,289Projection

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