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Inter-nishi — UN urban centre

85,002

Inter-nishi: 85,002 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,336 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5618; 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: 37.497, 139.9298. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975126,846Estimate
1980127,302Estimate
1985121,251Estimate
1990106,655Estimate
199595,411Estimate
2000101,520Estimate
200595,185Estimate
201091,310Estimate
201589,897Estimate
202087,353Estimate
202585,002Estimate
203082,431Projection
203578,587Projection
204076,267Projection
204570,294Projection
205068,294Projection

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