Chenkaladhi EP — UN urban centre
Chenkaladhi EP: 55,232 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,147 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2206; territory: Sri Lanka (LKA). 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: 7.7822, 81.6078. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 51,083 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 51,691 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 51,404 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 51,374 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 51,437 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 55,232 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 56,071 | Projection |
| 2035 | 84,239 | Projection |
| 2040 | 85,120 | Projection |
| 2045 | 85,754 | Projection |
| 2050 | 85,929 | Projection |
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