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Diepsloot — UN urban centre

196,763

Diepsloot: 196,763 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,044 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4161; territory: South Africa (ZAF). 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: -25.9319, 28.0107. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197555,699Estimate
198055,656Estimate
198559,178Estimate
199066,000Estimate
199582,586Estimate
2000101,170Estimate
2005117,958Estimate
2010135,392Estimate
2015157,367Estimate
2020187,542Estimate
2025196,763Estimate
2030205,149Projection
2035218,873Projection
2040230,346Projection
2045246,850Projection
2050281,810Projection

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