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Gorontalo — UN urban centre

513,078

Gorontalo: 513,078 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,082 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8522; 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: 0.5615, 123.0628. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975179,730Estimate
1980205,262Estimate
1985231,572Estimate
1990264,593Estimate
1995294,451Estimate
2000329,948Estimate
2005369,467Estimate
2010403,175Estimate
2015447,158Estimate
2020479,443Estimate
2025513,078Estimate
2030539,162Projection
2035561,402Projection
2040579,437Projection
2045599,194Projection
2050609,924Projection

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