Sandakan — UN urban centre
Sandakan: 400,980 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,412 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3427; territory: Malaysia (MYS). 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: 5.8542, 118.0771. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 77,260 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 86,258 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 109,533 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 121,719 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 198,284 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 290,744 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 328,378 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 371,905 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 400,980 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 427,567 | Projection |
| 2035 | 452,251 | Projection |
| 2040 | 478,660 | Projection |
| 2045 | 499,446 | Projection |
| 2050 | 515,564 | Projection |
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