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Iwakuni — UN urban centre

85,091

Iwakuni: 85,091 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,322 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3154; 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: 34.1595, 132.2129. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975151,468Estimate
1980151,882Estimate
1985150,448Estimate
1990137,144Estimate
199596,850Estimate
200098,772Estimate
200594,205Estimate
201090,944Estimate
201589,611Estimate
202086,937Estimate
202585,091Estimate
203080,590Projection
203575,641Projection
204073,640Projection
204571,622Projection
205066,108Projection

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