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Pabianice — UN urban centre

60,303

Pabianice: 60,303 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,271 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3061; territory: Poland (POL). 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: 51.6608, 19.3534. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197564,971Estimate
198065,896Estimate
198570,889Estimate
199068,935Estimate
199567,402Estimate
200065,437Estimate
200565,575Estimate
201063,144Estimate
201561,408Estimate
202060,163Estimate
202560,303Estimate
203059,001Projection
203556,840Projection
204056,012Projection
204555,201Projection
205051,726Projection

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