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Venice — UN urban centre

57,048

Venice: 57,048 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,798 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3850; 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: 45.437, 12.3338. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197566,731Estimate
198067,753Estimate
198567,281Estimate
199065,991Estimate
199564,730Estimate
200062,275Estimate
200560,333Estimate
201058,707Estimate
201557,809Estimate
202058,082Estimate
202557,048Estimate
203056,679Projection
203556,274Projection
204055,796Projection
204555,260Projection
205054,469Projection

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