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Jezqazğan — UN urban centre

62,825

Jezqazğan: 62,825 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,859 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1520; territory: Kazakhstan (KAZ). 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: 47.7913, 67.7078. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197563,959Estimate
198072,801Estimate
198577,185Estimate
199091,557Estimate
199580,701Estimate
200069,130Estimate
200564,902Estimate
201062,700Estimate
201560,062Estimate
202056,553Estimate
202562,825Estimate
203084,649Projection
203592,709Projection
2040101,891Projection
2045107,373Projection
2050112,734Projection

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