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Joresan — UN urban centre

84,186

Joresan: 84,186 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,406 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7418; 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: -7.9336, 111.4901. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197583,003Estimate
198084,277Estimate
198587,961Estimate
199086,937Estimate
199591,290Estimate
200093,176Estimate
200591,645Estimate
201089,112Estimate
201587,003Estimate
202085,220Estimate
202584,186Estimate
203081,440Projection
203579,985Projection
204078,146Projection
204576,198Projection
205072,299Projection

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