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Trnava — UN urban centre

55,695

Trnava: 55,695 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,061 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 249; territory: Slovakia (SVK). 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: 48.3747, 17.5854. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197554,460Estimate
198059,729Estimate
198562,131Estimate
199064,616Estimate
199564,155Estimate
200063,242Estimate
200561,031Estimate
201058,211Estimate
201555,163Estimate
202053,999Estimate
202555,695Estimate
203053,452Projection
203552,992Projection
204052,319Projection
204551,663Projection
205050,952Projection

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