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Takengon — UN urban centre

80,604

Takengon: 80,604 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,733 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 877; 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: 4.6279, 96.8459. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197583,185Estimate
198080,969Estimate
198577,172Estimate
199072,160Estimate
199574,906Estimate
200076,463Estimate
200579,809Estimate
201082,294Estimate
201582,779Estimate
202080,281Estimate
202580,604Estimate
203082,226Projection
203581,988Projection
204081,357Projection
204580,514Projection
205077,683Projection

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