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San — UN urban centre

91,788

San: 91,788 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,752 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1655; territory: Mali (MLI). 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: 13.2963, -4.898. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200050,794Estimate
200557,474Estimate
201064,610Estimate
201572,310Estimate
202080,770Estimate
202591,788Estimate
2030100,249Projection
2035108,388Projection
2040115,942Projection
2045120,768Projection
2050130,045Projection

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