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Syracuse — UN urban centre

95,695

Syracuse: 95,695 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,455 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5135; 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: 37.0862, 15.2816. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197593,722Estimate
198099,375Estimate
1985102,412Estimate
1990104,151Estimate
1995104,437Estimate
2000102,790Estimate
2005101,106Estimate
201099,440Estimate
201598,270Estimate
202097,547Estimate
202595,695Estimate
203090,946Projection
203588,600Projection
204086,141Projection
204583,698Projection
205080,868Projection

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