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Du Noon — UN urban centre

54,305

Du Noon: 54,305 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,338 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 825; 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: -33.8195, 18.5409. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
202051,785Estimate
202554,305Estimate
203059,972Projection
203565,259Projection
204073,265Projection
204578,799Projection
205083,031Projection

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