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Ambarawa — UN urban centre

85,648

Ambarawa: 85,648 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,269 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7077; 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: -7.2555, 110.4103. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197585,513Estimate
198090,719Estimate
198586,437Estimate
199082,017Estimate
199584,786Estimate
200086,394Estimate
200588,228Estimate
201089,416Estimate
201588,592Estimate
202086,077Estimate
202585,648Estimate
203085,029Projection
203584,035Projection
204082,638Projection
204581,024Projection
205078,901Projection

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