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Blitar, 
Indonesia
442,219 people lived in Blitar in 2025. It is the 1260th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 47th largest in Indonesia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Blitar governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Blitar grew
For every 10 people in Blitar in 1975, there were 17 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 305,325 people in 2050.
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
Blitar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Blitar 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 Blitar; 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, Blitar covered 166 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 53 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 70%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Indonesia
Its share of Indonesia
Of every 1,000 people in Indonesia in 2025, 2 lived in Blitar, which is 442,219 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Blitar. 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
- 1256 Irkutsk Russia442,807
- 1257 Bishoftu Ethiopia442,776
- 1258 Nizamabad India442,690
- 1259 Santa Marta Colombia442,455
- 1260 Blitar442,219
- 1261 Anantapur India442,201
- 1262 Belfast United Kingdom441,925
- 1263 Toyohashi Japan441,665
- 1264 Chief Albert Luthuli Park South Africa441,204
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1156 Kediri480,038
- 1160 Jombang478,051
- 1196 Manado464,793
- 1247 Pematang Siantar446,269
- 1260 Blitar442,219
- 1313 Gresik426,246
- 1338 Probolinggo420,356
- 1378 Nganjuk409,447
- 1383 Kendari408,731
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 Blitar 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 Blitar 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