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Ngawi — UN urban centre

85,489

Ngawi: 85,489 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,287 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7443; 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: -7.407, 111.4429. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975105,247Estimate
198099,601Estimate
198594,747Estimate
199092,712Estimate
199595,580Estimate
200096,077Estimate
200593,881Estimate
201090,917Estimate
201588,742Estimate
202086,520Estimate
202585,489Estimate
203084,233Projection
203582,753Projection
204080,878Projection
204578,954Projection
205076,535Projection

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