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Praya — UN urban centre

169,640

Praya: 169,640 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,565 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8129; 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: -8.703, 116.2699. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975106,704Estimate
1980104,018Estimate
1985100,135Estimate
199099,796Estimate
1995123,932Estimate
2000137,811Estimate
2005145,649Estimate
2010150,609Estimate
2015158,971Estimate
2020163,996Estimate
2025169,640Estimate
2030177,934Projection
2035183,567Projection
2040185,624Projection
2045186,676Projection
2050186,559Projection

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