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Ad-Damazin — UN urban centre

217,071

Ad-Damazin: 217,071 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,723 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5110; territory: Sudan (SDN). 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: 11.8092, 34.3563. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197554,101Estimate
198066,896Estimate
198577,231Estimate
199080,807Estimate
199592,610Estimate
2000106,481Estimate
2005126,800Estimate
2010150,972Estimate
2015182,108Estimate
2020210,170Estimate
2025217,071Estimate
2030245,671Projection
2035256,730Projection
2040274,622Projection
2045284,802Projection
2050296,890Projection

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