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Ketapang — UN urban centre

177,025

Ketapang: 177,025 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,410 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7119; 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: -1.838, 109.971. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197586,617Estimate
198094,775Estimate
198597,558Estimate
1990100,333Estimate
1995131,910Estimate
2000142,579Estimate
2005155,356Estimate
2010163,198Estimate
2015169,006Estimate
2020166,566Estimate
2025177,025Estimate
2030189,033Projection
2035194,901Projection
2040199,835Projection
2045203,508Projection
2050205,905Projection

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