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Cirebon, 
Indonesia
1,566,821 people lived in Cirebon in 2025. It is the 318th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cirebon grew
For every 10 people in Cirebon in 1975, there were 20.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Cirebon through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cirebon 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). Cirebon 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, Cirebon covered 259 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 43 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 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, 5 lived in Cirebon, which is 1.6 million 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 Cirebon's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 314 Rajkot India1,581,235
- 315 Datong China1,573,531
- 316 Uyo Nigeria1,567,115
- 317 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar India1,567,020
- 318 Cirebon1,566,821
- 319 Nouakchott Mauritania1,561,617
- 320 Tijuana Mexico1,557,695
- 321 Gwalior India1,554,246
- 322 Davao City Philippines1,546,026
In Indonesia, 2025
- 237 Palembang2,132,576
- 259 Tarogong1,917,036
- 265 Malang1,899,616
- 282 Slawi1,733,437
- 318 Cirebon1,566,821
- 326 Surakarta1,538,599
- 338 Batam City1,500,354
- 382 Purwokerto1,331,010
- 386 Samarinda1,325,554
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 Cirebon 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 Cirebon 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