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Çorum — UN urban centre

234,339

Çorum: 234,339 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,502 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5314; territory: Türkiye (TUR). 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: 40.5492, 34.9581. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197561,446Estimate
198071,290Estimate
198588,077Estimate
1990105,331Estimate
1995122,975Estimate
2000144,620Estimate
2005158,180Estimate
2010185,409Estimate
2015208,570Estimate
2020239,576Estimate
2025234,339Estimate
2030228,428Projection
2035223,062Projection
2040216,855Projection
2045211,223Projection
2050204,395Projection

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