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García — UN urban centre

173,939

García: 173,939 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,484 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6200; 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: 25.7958, -100.5936. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
201087,882Estimate
2015156,338Estimate
2020168,708Estimate
2025173,939Estimate
2030180,492Projection
2035190,686Projection
2040194,502Projection
2045200,176Projection
2050212,730Projection

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