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Modena — UN urban centre

151,920

Modena: 151,920 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,985 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3058; 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: 44.6411, 10.9257. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975133,923Estimate
1980139,006Estimate
1985139,787Estimate
1990139,086Estimate
1995140,658Estimate
2000140,985Estimate
2005142,746Estimate
2010145,056Estimate
2015148,175Estimate
2020151,984Estimate
2025151,920Estimate
2030150,742Projection
2035149,286Projection
2040147,638Projection
2045145,808Projection
2050143,301Projection

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