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Gunungsitoli — UN urban centre

75,542

Gunungsitoli: 75,542 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,245 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1109; territory: Indonesia (IDN). 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: 1.2868, 97.6177. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198053,734Estimate
198557,054Estimate
199058,744Estimate
199565,112Estimate
200067,960Estimate
200569,308Estimate
201071,412Estimate
201575,148Estimate
202075,152Estimate
202575,542Estimate
203075,734Projection
203575,809Projection
204075,522Projection
204575,304Projection
205074,615Projection

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