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Ciudad Acuña — UN urban centre

121,538

Ciudad Acuña: 121,538 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,044 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6649; 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: 29.3189, -100.9629. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199570,238Estimate
2000106,290Estimate
2005118,253Estimate
2010126,921Estimate
2015126,754Estimate
2020117,978Estimate
2025121,538Estimate
2030124,922Projection
2035128,966Projection
2040133,957Projection
2045135,479Projection
2050136,163Projection

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