Tangier — UN urban centre
Tangier: 1,217,976 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #423 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3888; 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: 35.7531, -5.8134. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 254,013 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 318,647 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 388,486 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 464,650 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 549,372 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 625,291 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 713,581 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 836,975 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 972,055 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,145,974 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,217,976 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,266,459 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,307,940 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,343,361 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,373,685 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,394,769 | Projection |
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