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Khmelnytskyi — UN urban centre

242,022

Khmelnytskyi: 242,022 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,422 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1857; 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: 49.4197, 26.99. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975248,670Estimate
1980252,930Estimate
1985255,427Estimate
1990261,927Estimate
1995267,039Estimate
2000263,000Estimate
2005260,264Estimate
2010267,142Estimate
2015273,578Estimate
2020266,447Estimate
2025242,022Estimate
2030249,096Projection
2035245,578Projection
2040239,480Projection
2045235,375Projection
2050228,261Projection

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