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Bergen op Zoom — UN urban centre

62,764

Bergen op Zoom: 62,764 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,875 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 533; territory: Netherlands (NLD). 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: 51.5039, 4.2852. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200057,945Estimate
200558,106Estimate
201058,095Estimate
201559,894Estimate
202060,426Estimate
202562,764Estimate
203064,076Projection
203566,276Projection
204066,516Projection
204566,430Projection
205066,125Projection

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