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Battipaglia — UN urban centre

58,737

Battipaglia: 58,737 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,522 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5006; 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: 40.612, 14.9749. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197550,608Estimate
198052,855Estimate
198554,696Estimate
199056,275Estimate
199557,380Estimate
200057,711Estimate
200558,216Estimate
201058,701Estimate
201559,273Estimate
202059,767Estimate
202558,737Estimate
203057,276Projection
203555,991Projection
204054,634Projection
204553,243Projection
205051,606Projection

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