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San Pablo — UN urban centre

276,250

San Pablo: 276,250 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,101 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3834; territory: Philippines (PHL). 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: 14.0712, 121.321. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199068,758Estimate
199590,630Estimate
2000130,284Estimate
2005155,132Estimate
2010174,501Estimate
2015196,144Estimate
2020244,309Estimate
2025276,250Estimate
2030289,467Projection
2035302,275Projection
2040324,406Projection
2045332,838Projection
2050345,082Projection

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