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Altamura — UN urban centre

59,814

Altamura: 59,814 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,346 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5392; 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: 40.8254, 16.5534. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197556,897Estimate
198057,545Estimate
198557,473Estimate
199057,425Estimate
199558,014Estimate
200058,574Estimate
200561,769Estimate
201065,357Estimate
201564,956Estimate
202061,154Estimate
202559,814Estimate
203058,035Projection
203556,475Projection
204054,842Projection
204553,253Projection
205051,417Projection

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