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Berdiansk — UN urban centre

73,689

Berdiansk: 73,689 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,454 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4436; 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: 46.7635, 36.7898. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975103,299Estimate
1980102,487Estimate
1985119,209Estimate
1990120,340Estimate
1995119,306Estimate
200094,560Estimate
200589,993Estimate
201087,197Estimate
2015104,223Estimate
202082,153Estimate
202573,689Estimate
203074,815Projection
203572,847Projection
204070,817Projection
204568,664Projection
205063,340Projection

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