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Bandar Lampung, 
Indonesia
1,184,054 people lived in Bandar Lampung in 2025. It is the 438th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st largest in Indonesia.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bandar Lampung grew
Count 10 people in Bandar Lampung in 1975 and the same count gives 82.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Bandar Lampung through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bandar Lampung in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Indonesia and its 389 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Jakarta). Bandar Lampung is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bandar Lampung covered 176 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 42 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.8 times its size, and its people are 8.2 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, 4 lived in Bandar Lampung, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Bandar Lampung. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 434 Oran Algeria1,192,410
- 435 Hiroshima Japan1,185,788
- 436 Padang1,184,342
- 437 Shymkent Kazakhstan1,184,337
- 438 Bandar Lampung1,184,054
- 439 Yueqing China1,160,214
- 440 Cabinda Angola1,157,345
- 441 Serrekunda Gambia1,156,903
- 442 El Mahalla El Kubra Egypt1,156,501
In Indonesia, 2025
- 382 Purwokerto1,331,010
- 386 Samarinda1,325,554
- 427 Pekanbaru1,208,872
- 436 Padang1,184,342
- 438 Bandar Lampung1,184,054
- 514 Mataram997,132
- 525 Jambi980,534
- 528 Pekalongan978,519
- 557 Banjarmasin930,711
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bandar Lampung 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 Bandar Lampung 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