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Lackawanna — UN urban centre

52,726

Lackawanna: 52,726 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,671 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8193; territory: United States (USA). 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: 42.8429, -78.8136. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197567,884Estimate
198061,088Estimate
198559,439Estimate
199057,705Estimate
199557,678Estimate
200057,465Estimate
200556,144Estimate
201055,081Estimate
201554,148Estimate
202053,368Estimate
202552,726Estimate
203052,234Projection
203551,873Projection

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