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Bulukumba — UN urban centre

123,798

Bulukumba: 123,798 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,945 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8396; 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: -5.5489, 120.1914. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975124,431Estimate
1980117,745Estimate
1985107,886Estimate
199097,403Estimate
1995107,389Estimate
2000112,121Estimate
2005113,202Estimate
2010114,822Estimate
2015115,473Estimate
2020117,373Estimate
2025123,798Estimate
2030127,749Projection
2035130,459Projection
2040132,544Projection
2045133,526Projection
2050133,672Projection

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