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Bangkinang — UN urban centre

186,431

Bangkinang: 186,431 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,238 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3686; 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: 0.3389, 101.0209. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197567,631Estimate
198068,626Estimate
198569,071Estimate
199072,368Estimate
199583,353Estimate
200090,873Estimate
2005117,172Estimate
2010133,110Estimate
2015151,605Estimate
2020165,668Estimate
2025186,431Estimate
2030208,131Projection
2035235,489Projection
2040283,066Projection
2045307,526Projection
2050328,925Projection

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