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Bila Tserkva — UN urban centre

191,217

Bila Tserkva: 191,217 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,139 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2255; 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: 49.8013, 30.1193. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975205,991Estimate
1980208,082Estimate
1985213,039Estimate
1990217,518Estimate
1995220,636Estimate
2000215,782Estimate
2005213,552Estimate
2010215,445Estimate
2015219,741Estimate
2020216,159Estimate
2025191,217Estimate
2030198,423Projection
2035193,404Projection
2040190,233Projection
2045186,247Projection
2050180,223Projection

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