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Mubi — UN urban centre

262,651

Mubi: 262,651 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,219 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8852; 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: 10.265, 13.27. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197595,760Estimate
1980113,515Estimate
1985120,214Estimate
1990127,123Estimate
1995140,485Estimate
2000154,111Estimate
2005177,723Estimate
2010198,877Estimate
2015223,612Estimate
2020247,003Estimate
2025262,651Estimate
2030279,285Projection
2035293,984Projection
2040310,342Projection
2045326,844Projection
2050344,599Projection

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