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Râmnicu Vâlcea — UN urban centre

58,850

Râmnicu Vâlcea: 58,850 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,501 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1586; territory: Romania (ROU). 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: 45.1046, 24.3685. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197594,224Estimate
198093,583Estimate
198590,883Estimate
199087,019Estimate
199582,743Estimate
200078,903Estimate
200574,504Estimate
201070,653Estimate
201564,828Estimate
202059,607Estimate
202558,850Estimate
203057,889Projection
203557,199Projection
204056,447Projection
204556,969Projection
205056,214Projection

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