Mary — UN urban centre
Mary: 280,172 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,074 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1209; territory: Turkmenistan (TKM). 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: 37.6001, 61.8489. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 75,850 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 77,305 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 92,443 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 113,016 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 130,978 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 148,465 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 190,808 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 211,356 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 234,908 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 256,695 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 280,172 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 289,696 | Projection |
| 2035 | 295,345 | Projection |
| 2040 | 302,223 | Projection |
| 2045 | 307,319 | Projection |
| 2050 | 312,213 | Projection |
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