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Banjarmasin, 
Indonesia
930,711 people lived in Banjarmasin in 2025. It is the 557th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 25th 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 Banjarmasin grew
Count 10 people in Banjarmasin in 1975 and the same count gives 19.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Banjarmasin through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Banjarmasin 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 Banjarmasin; 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, Banjarmasin covered 114 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 25 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 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, 3 lived in Banjarmasin, which is 930,711 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Banjarmasin. 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
- 553 Linfen China945,174
- 554 Homs Syria940,460
- 555 Bucaramanga Colombia939,291
- 556 Samarqand Uzbekistan932,219
- 557 Banjarmasin930,711
- 558 Ma'anshan China929,836
- 559 Teresina Brazil929,795
- 560 Chandanaish Bangladesh928,788
- 561 Jos Nigeria923,652
In Indonesia, 2025
- 438 Bandar Lampung1,184,054
- 514 Mataram997,132
- 525 Jambi980,534
- 528 Pekalongan978,519
- 557 Banjarmasin930,711
- 655 Pontianak808,759
- 735 Tulungagung728,924
- 736 Balikpapan728,771
- 751 Jepara714,514
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 Banjarmasin 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 Banjarmasin 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