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Sokodé — UN urban centre

197,651

Sokodé: 197,651 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,027 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1039; territory: Togo (TGO). 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: 8.9876, 1.1425. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197575,139Estimate
198082,681Estimate
198591,051Estimate
1990100,319Estimate
1995106,692Estimate
2000124,684Estimate
2005132,395Estimate
2010144,504Estimate
2015166,107Estimate
2020178,799Estimate
2025197,651Estimate
2030217,426Projection
2035233,148Projection
2040252,842Projection
2045269,109Projection
2050284,308Projection

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