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Manado — UN urban centre

464,793

Manado: 464,793 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,196 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8558; 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: 1.4741, 124.8463. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975193,072Estimate
1980205,769Estimate
1985244,400Estimate
1990294,661Estimate
1995328,288Estimate
2000366,608Estimate
2005385,584Estimate
2010414,086Estimate
2015429,084Estimate
2020447,823Estimate
2025464,793Estimate
2030499,305Projection
2035533,285Projection
2040547,819Projection
2045596,232Projection
2050610,994Projection

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