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Oyama — UN urban centre

87,426

Oyama: 87,426 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,113 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6125; 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: 36.3008, 139.8059. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197590,731Estimate
1980103,148Estimate
1985104,751Estimate
1990108,153Estimate
1995108,772Estimate
2000107,758Estimate
2005105,526Estimate
2010103,356Estimate
201599,147Estimate
202088,319Estimate
202587,426Estimate
203086,307Projection
203584,711Projection
204083,107Projection
204581,294Projection
205076,787Projection

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