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Heroica Nogales — UN urban centre

281,580

Heroica Nogales: 281,580 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,065 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2728; territory: Mexico (MEX). 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: 31.2968, -110.9428. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197575,357Estimate
198082,547Estimate
198587,252Estimate
199087,429Estimate
1995143,262Estimate
2000158,436Estimate
2005186,139Estimate
2010210,727Estimate
2015235,067Estimate
2020274,805Estimate
2025281,580Estimate
2030287,950Projection
2035293,188Projection
2040296,822Projection
2045301,428Projection
2050302,677Projection

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