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Yonago — UN urban centre

109,276

Yonago: 109,276 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,657 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2916; 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: 35.4417, 133.3394. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975155,177Estimate
1980155,726Estimate
1985153,832Estimate
1990138,331Estimate
1995122,822Estimate
2000129,888Estimate
2005122,118Estimate
2010116,205Estimate
2015116,508Estimate
2020111,775Estimate
2025109,276Estimate
2030106,493Projection
2035103,758Projection
2040101,014Projection
204595,204Projection
205092,708Projection

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