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Balung, 
Indonesia
497,754 people lived in Balung in 2025. It is the 1112th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 42nd largest in Indonesia.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Balung's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Balung grew
Count 10 people in Balung in 1975 and the same count gives 26.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 398,633 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Balung through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Balung in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 389 cities in Indonesia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Jakarta. The ringed dot in colour is Balung; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Balung covered 156 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 33 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.8 times its size, and its people are 2.6 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Indonesia
Its share of Indonesia
Of every 1,000 people in Indonesia in 2025, 2 lived in Balung, which is 497,754 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Indonesia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Balung's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1108 Naberezhnye Chelny Russia498,625
- 1109 Hamedan Iran498,337
- 1110 General Santos Philippines498,098
- 1111 Vũng Tàu Vietnam498,010
- 1112 Balung497,754
- 1113 Khamis Mushayt Saudi Arabia497,246
- 1114 Yangjiang China496,608
- 1115 Bloemfontein South Africa496,295
- 1116 Sousse Tunisia495,877
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1021 Kendal541,030
- 1026 Kupang538,998
- 1055 Jember522,844
- 1082 Gorontalo513,078
- 1112 Balung497,754
- 1156 Kediri480,038
- 1160 Jombang478,051
- 1196 Manado464,793
- 1247 Pematang Siantar446,269
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Balung are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Balung publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries