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Thohoyandou — UN urban centre

57,552

Thohoyandou: 57,552 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,709 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5341; 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: -22.9657, 30.4761. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
201556,931Estimate
202054,826Estimate
202557,552Estimate
203058,125Projection
203558,504Projection
204058,660Projection
204558,755Projection
205058,734Projection

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