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Rantau Prapat — UN urban centre

207,052

Rantau Prapat: 207,052 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,878 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3032; 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: 2.0928, 99.8347. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975121,284Estimate
1980124,060Estimate
1985125,881Estimate
1990124,174Estimate
1995140,830Estimate
2000167,519Estimate
2005178,431Estimate
2010191,439Estimate
2015199,337Estimate
2020203,810Estimate
2025207,052Estimate
2030209,751Projection
2035213,554Projection
2040214,574Projection
2045215,045Projection
2050214,167Projection

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