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Pemalang — UN urban centre

282,807

Pemalang: 282,807 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,056 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6738; 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: -6.9012, 109.3941. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975383,496Estimate
1980378,030Estimate
1985369,850Estimate
1990351,875Estimate
1995348,039Estimate
2000335,297Estimate
2005322,996Estimate
2010311,273Estimate
2015301,920Estimate
2020288,432Estimate
2025282,807Estimate
2030277,704Projection
2035272,039Projection
2040263,580Projection
2045256,641Projection
2050246,626Projection

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