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Gallarate — UN urban centre

125,831

Gallarate: 125,831 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,862 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 810; 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: 45.6631, 8.7992. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197589,914Estimate
198093,032Estimate
198594,553Estimate
199098,786Estimate
1995100,649Estimate
2000102,064Estimate
2005105,629Estimate
2010112,219Estimate
2015121,773Estimate
2020125,877Estimate
2025125,831Estimate
2030124,863Projection
2035123,614Projection
2040122,205Projection
2045120,674Projection
2050118,584Projection

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