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Ksar el-Kebir — UN urban centre

158,361

Ksar el-Kebir: 158,361 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,820 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3842; territory: Morocco (MAR). 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: 35.0003, -5.9037. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197582,985Estimate
198096,100Estimate
1985108,191Estimate
1990121,505Estimate
1995135,341Estimate
2000131,532Estimate
2005130,315Estimate
2010138,436Estimate
2015143,394Estimate
2020149,863Estimate
2025158,361Estimate
2030163,951Projection
2035170,731Projection
2040177,446Projection
2045182,973Projection
2050186,044Projection

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