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Uppsala — UN urban centre

134,252

Uppsala: 134,252 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,532 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1482; territory: Sweden (SWE). 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: 59.8604, 17.6414. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197568,763Estimate
198072,947Estimate
198574,214Estimate
199080,887Estimate
199582,621Estimate
200086,147Estimate
200589,966Estimate
201095,789Estimate
2015101,705Estimate
2020106,831Estimate
2025134,252Estimate
2030136,937Projection
2035140,424Projection
2040142,342Projection
2045144,205Projection
2050152,131Projection

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