Balikpapan — UN urban centre
Balikpapan: 728,771 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #736 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8185; 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: -1.2459, 116.8589. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 177,418 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 273,110 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 292,010 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 303,141 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 350,509 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 409,645 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 470,855 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 551,148 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 603,735 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 657,867 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 728,771 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 803,083 | Projection |
| 2035 | 873,794 | Projection |
| 2040 | 939,102 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,002,342 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,062,923 | Projection |
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