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Mongu Arna — UN urban centre

120,347

Mongu Arna: 120,347 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,105 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8615; 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: 9.4871, 9.1436. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197557,284Estimate
198061,178Estimate
198565,341Estimate
199068,041Estimate
199575,360Estimate
200081,624Estimate
200591,445Estimate
2010102,950Estimate
2015110,830Estimate
2020113,399Estimate
2025120,347Estimate
2030130,182Projection
2035140,456Projection
2040147,016Projection
2045154,606Projection
2050159,836Projection

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