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Matsusaka — UN urban centre

67,239

Matsusaka: 67,239 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,217 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5568; 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: 34.57, 136.536. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197593,747Estimate
198094,302Estimate
198592,967Estimate
199093,184Estimate
199593,209Estimate
200090,061Estimate
200586,131Estimate
201082,438Estimate
201574,045Estimate
202068,308Estimate
202567,239Estimate
203065,995Projection
203564,655Projection
204063,309Projection
204561,874Projection
205060,540Projection

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