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Bandar Lampung — UN urban centre

1,184,054

Bandar Lampung: 1,184,054 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #438 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5407; 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: -5.3984, 105.2662. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975144,091Estimate
1980265,164Estimate
1985299,278Estimate
1990341,053Estimate
1995495,450Estimate
2000657,916Estimate
2005791,622Estimate
2010940,446Estimate
20151,059,200Estimate
20201,167,449Estimate
20251,184,054Estimate
20301,199,068Projection
20351,207,449Projection
20401,211,573Projection
20451,211,283Projection
20501,203,374Projection

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