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Kersana — UN urban centre

187,802

Kersana: 187,802 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,215 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6587; 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: -6.9224, 108.8713. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197567,919Estimate
1980147,373Estimate
1985159,581Estimate
1990165,256Estimate
1995202,521Estimate
2000205,674Estimate
2005207,481Estimate
2010206,175Estimate
2015203,598Estimate
2020190,795Estimate
2025187,802Estimate
2030182,832Projection
2035178,922Projection
2040126,756Projection
2045123,311Projection
2050119,094Projection

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