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Ngo — UN urban centre

168,690

Ngo: 168,690 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,583 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7891; territory: Nigeria (NGA). 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: 4.4836, 7.4077. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199054,144Estimate
199561,605Estimate
200075,499Estimate
200588,297Estimate
2010112,084Estimate
2015131,436Estimate
2020147,683Estimate
2025168,690Estimate
2030192,061Projection
2035218,979Projection
2040243,986Projection
2045269,586Projection
2050294,041Projection

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