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Tafas — UN urban centre

62,104

Tafas: 62,104 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,000 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1779; territory: Syria (SYR). 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: 32.7359, 36.0676. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
201550,557Estimate
202051,030Estimate
202562,104Estimate
203071,249Projection
203578,148Projection
204085,186Projection
204590,877Projection
205094,706Projection

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