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Iksan-si — UN urban centre

164,566

Iksan-si: 164,566 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,680 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2291; territory: South Korea (KOR). 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: 35.9485, 126.9662. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975365,507Estimate
1980304,098Estimate
1985259,347Estimate
1990211,832Estimate
1995210,349Estimate
2000206,521Estimate
2005191,277Estimate
2010178,617Estimate
2015180,162Estimate
2020165,615Estimate
2025164,566Estimate
2030162,604Projection
2035160,491Projection
2040156,898Projection
2045153,028Projection
2050144,595Projection

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