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Kovel — UN urban centre

69,025

Kovel: 69,025 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,982 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1062; territory: Ukraine (UKR). 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: 51.2157, 24.7075. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197564,285Estimate
198066,855Estimate
198568,814Estimate
199071,074Estimate
199580,012Estimate
200078,658Estimate
200576,887Estimate
201079,099Estimate
201579,963Estimate
202078,720Estimate
202569,025Estimate
203073,571Projection
203572,385Projection
204068,665Projection
204567,367Projection
205064,401Projection

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