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Iizuka — UN urban centre

84,437

Iizuka: 84,437 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,382 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1539; territory: Japan (JPN). 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: 33.6404, 130.6821. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197570,169Estimate
198071,373Estimate
198573,939Estimate
199078,998Estimate
199584,843Estimate
200084,151Estimate
200587,790Estimate
201087,498Estimate
201587,359Estimate
202086,307Estimate
202584,437Estimate
203082,348Projection
203580,187Projection
204078,019Projection
204574,367Projection
205072,357Projection

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