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Bangkinang, 
Indonesia
186,431 people lived in Bangkinang in 2025. It is the 3238th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 109th largest in Indonesia.
Like every city on this site, Bangkinang is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bangkinang grew
Where Bangkinang had 10 people in 1975, it had 27.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 328,925 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Bangkinang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bangkinang 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). Bangkinang 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, Bangkinang covered 28 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.3 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 2.7 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, 1 lived in Bangkinang, which is 186,431 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 Bangkinang's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3214 Guider Cameroon187,887
- 3217 Domariaganj India187,658
- 3224 Cafunfo Angola187,253
- 3232 Jayapura186,856
- 3238 Bangkinang186,431
- 3241 Balcad Somalia186,328
- 3247 Meja Road India186,137
- 3249 Naivasha Kenya185,944
- 3255 Ruwa Zimbabwe185,224
In Indonesia, 2025
- 2746 Manokwari214,949
- 2774 Mulia213,704
- 3161 Nabire190,211
- 3232 Jayapura186,856
- 3238 Bangkinang186,431
- 3258 Biak Kota184,918
- 4014 Tanjung Pinang150,872
- 4208 Bontang145,118
- 7666 Bandar Seri Bentan81,340
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bangkinang 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 Bangkinang 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