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Aweil — UN urban centre

57,599

Aweil: 57,599 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,699 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 108; territory: South Sudan (SSD). 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: 8.7625, 27.3876. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975196,527Estimate
1980197,740Estimate
1985194,339Estimate
1990165,453Estimate
1995157,841Estimate
2000155,009Estimate
2005155,401Estimate
2010151,679Estimate
2015117,368Estimate
202057,315Estimate
202557,599Estimate
203056,834Projection
203556,375Projection
204055,770Projection
204555,368Projection
205054,552Projection

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