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Como — UN urban centre

109,180

Como: 109,180 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,663 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1669; territory: Italy (ITA). 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: 45.8067, 9.086. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197567,041Estimate
198099,752Estimate
1985101,489Estimate
1990102,189Estimate
1995103,181Estimate
2000102,500Estimate
2005103,280Estimate
2010104,733Estimate
2015106,467Estimate
2020109,218Estimate
2025109,180Estimate
2030108,341Projection
2035107,271Projection
2040106,063Projection
2045104,638Projection
2050102,729Projection

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