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Jombang — UN urban centre

478,051

Jombang: 478,051 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,160 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7673; 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: -7.553, 112.2467. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975254,248Estimate
1980253,677Estimate
1985336,663Estimate
1990365,717Estimate
1995394,595Estimate
2000444,441Estimate
2005454,401Estimate
2010476,650Estimate
2015482,271Estimate
2020478,837Estimate
2025478,051Estimate
2030476,007Projection
2035471,781Projection
2040465,294Projection
2045443,912Projection
2050432,157Projection

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