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Asaka — UN urban centre

273,582

Asaka: 273,582 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,124 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4774; territory: Uzbekistan (UZB). 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: 40.6593, 72.2334. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199061,940Estimate
199579,807Estimate
2000102,249Estimate
2005120,227Estimate
2010139,161Estimate
2015153,503Estimate
2020171,067Estimate
2025273,582Estimate
2030301,979Projection
2035333,267Projection
2040364,756Projection
2045403,848Projection
2050465,332Projection

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