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Bandung, 
Indonesia
8,909,104 people lived in Bandung in 2025. It is the 40th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd 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 Bandung grew
Count 10 people in Bandung in 1975 and the same count gives 25.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 9.7 million people in 2050. It passed five million people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Bandung through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bandung in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bandung is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Indonesia in 2025, 389 in all, led by Jakarta, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bandung covered 1,016 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 206 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 2.6 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Indonesia
Its share of Indonesia
Of every 100 people in Indonesia in 2025, 3 lived in Bandung, which is 8.9 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Indonesia, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bandung's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 36 Paris France9,381,921
- 37 Hyderabad India9,190,795
- 38 Tehran Iran9,174,964
- 39 Taipei Taiwan9,136,792
- 40 Bandung8,909,104
- 41 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia8,443,731
- 42 Dar es Salaam Tanzania7,795,114
- 43 Suzhou China7,731,101
- 44 Ahmedabad India7,632,408
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1 Jakarta41,913,860
- 40 Bandung8,909,104
- 54 Surabaya6,843,503
- 102 Medan4,245,895
- 177 Tasikmalaya2,827,255
- 179 Yogyakarta2,793,747
- 186 Semarang2,679,349
- 209 Denpasar2,352,734
- 223 Makassar2,255,088
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 Bandung 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 Bandung 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