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Sinjar — UN urban centre

54,848

Sinjar: 54,848 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,221 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 448; 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: 36.3191, 41.8622. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
202554,848Estimate
203061,498Projection
203568,673Projection
204077,944Projection
204585,231Projection
205096,973Projection

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