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Gresik — UN urban centre

426,246

Gresik: 426,246 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,313 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7782; 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: -7.1623, 112.6347. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975269,321Estimate
1980281,225Estimate
1985300,566Estimate
1990303,834Estimate
1995324,936Estimate
2000358,315Estimate
2005387,897Estimate
2010417,529Estimate
2015430,806Estimate
2020426,868Estimate
2025426,246Estimate
2030424,503Projection
2035420,700Projection
2040414,881Projection
2045408,020Projection
2050398,602Projection

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