This boundary matters. Kannur UA includes Kannur municipality and cantonment alongside Payyannur, Taliparamba, Thalassery and other towns. Retain the UA geography when comparing this figure with data for one of those individual local authorities.
The original urban-unit count by sex
Census 2011 unit
People
Males
Females
Kannur U.A. · Urban agglomeration
16,40,986
7,55,764
8,85,222
Official A-04(I) table ↗ · Census 2011 A-04(I), sheet 'CLASS I', source rank 27; main-unit heading row 5176; 2011 row 5187, G5187 (Persons), J5187 (Males), K5187 (Females).. Published source sex classifications are retained.
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Kannur (M) has a separate Primary Census Abstract profile, including households, children, literacy, social categories and worker details. Its count is 56,823 people in 2011. Use its source-defined boundary; it is not a replacement for the urban unit displayed above.
The official Class I urban table records 16,40,986 people for Kannur U.A. in 2011. It ranks 27 among the main urban agglomeration and standalone-city totals in that table. We keep the main total and do not add its constituent places again.
The source classifies this unit as urban agglomeration. The figure belongs to the 2011 boundary and reference year. It should not be relabelled as Kannur’s population today.
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For Kannur, begin with the geographic unit printed in the source. A statistic for the surrounding district, a metropolitan planning region or the whole state cannot be substituted without an explicit boundary comparison.
Census 2011 A-04(I), sheet 'CLASS I', source rank 27; main-unit heading row 5176; 2011 row 5187, G5187 (Persons), J5187 (Males), K5187 (Females).. Source checked 11 October 2026. PopulationIndia independently presents the original government figure, with its geography and year.