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Tual — UN urban centre

98,223

Tual: 98,223 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,293 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8614; 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: -5.6428, 132.7441. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197581,618Estimate
198091,187Estimate
1985100,819Estimate
1990109,163Estimate
1995118,066Estimate
2000116,653Estimate
2005105,403Estimate
201092,994Estimate
201591,350Estimate
202098,067Estimate
202598,223Estimate
203098,140Projection
203598,217Projection
204097,807Projection
204599,142Projection
205096,857Projection

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