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Tomakomai — UN urban centre

129,747

Tomakomai: 129,747 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,709 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2443; 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: 42.6422, 141.5966. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197589,359Estimate
1980107,672Estimate
1985116,982Estimate
1990122,967Estimate
1995136,290Estimate
2000137,425Estimate
2005139,440Estimate
2010135,640Estimate
2015135,095Estimate
2020132,363Estimate
2025129,747Estimate
2030126,795Projection
2035123,969Projection
2040121,133Projection
2045115,401Projection
2050112,744Projection

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