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Dott — UN urban centre

83,016

Dott: 83,016 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,494 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8655; 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: 9.9994, 9.5175. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199551,673Estimate
200059,503Estimate
200564,405Estimate
201067,928Estimate
201570,369Estimate
202070,135Estimate
202583,016Estimate
203089,459Projection
203595,421Projection
2040106,013Projection
2045132,123Projection
2050139,511Projection

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