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Piacenza — UN urban centre

91,032

Piacenza: 91,032 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,811 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2322; 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: 45.0438, 9.6911. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197585,961Estimate
198085,592Estimate
198582,923Estimate
199081,440Estimate
199580,758Estimate
200079,400Estimate
200580,908Estimate
201083,405Estimate
201587,964Estimate
202091,111Estimate
202591,032Estimate
203090,285Projection
203589,398Projection
204088,397Projection
204587,332Projection
205085,862Projection

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