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Apizaco — UN urban centre

126,104

Apizaco: 126,104 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,852 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6050; 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: 19.4128, -98.1407. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198053,439Estimate
198564,239Estimate
199062,771Estimate
199568,826Estimate
200073,740Estimate
200580,408Estimate
201087,358Estimate
201593,344Estimate
2020121,511Estimate
2025126,104Estimate
2030129,050Projection
2035138,052Projection
2040139,956Projection
2045141,344Projection
2050143,903Projection

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