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Varese — UN urban centre

97,427

Varese: 97,427 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,350 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 932; 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: 45.8266, 8.8304. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197578,011Estimate
198082,180Estimate
198583,804Estimate
199084,195Estimate
199584,549Estimate
200083,668Estimate
200594,621Estimate
201095,099Estimate
201596,058Estimate
202097,406Estimate
202597,427Estimate
203096,733Projection
203595,820Projection
204094,783Projection
204593,549Projection
205091,881Projection

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