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Kisarazu — UN urban centre

176,379

Kisarazu: 176,379 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,429 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6361; 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: 35.3571, 139.9055. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975126,542Estimate
1980134,645Estimate
1985139,343Estimate
1990146,838Estimate
1995159,294Estimate
2000168,294Estimate
2005170,853Estimate
2010173,547Estimate
2015177,643Estimate
2020177,817Estimate
2025176,379Estimate
2030174,486Projection
2035171,652Projection
2040168,804Projection
2045164,005Projection
2050147,420Projection

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