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Denpasar, 
Indonesia
2,352,734 people lived in Denpasar in 2025. It is the 209th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Indonesia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Denpasar 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 Denpasar grew
Where Denpasar had 10 people in 1975, it had 110.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.8 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Denpasar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Denpasar 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 Denpasar; 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, Denpasar covered 512 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 94 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 times its size, and its people are 11.1 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 1,000 people in Indonesia in 2025, 8 lived in Denpasar, which is 2.4 million people.
How to read this: shrink Indonesia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Denpasar; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 205 Ponnani India2,409,567
- 206 Coimbatore India2,382,988
- 207 Rome Italy2,376,474
- 208 Almaty Kazakhstan2,367,611
- 209 Denpasar2,352,734
- 210 Prayagraj India2,347,869
- 211 Port Harcourt Nigeria2,341,445
- 212 Dammam Saudi Arabia2,335,647
- 213 Daegu South Korea2,334,446
In Indonesia, 2025
- 102 Medan4,245,895
- 177 Tasikmalaya2,827,255
- 179 Yogyakarta2,793,747
- 186 Semarang2,679,349
- 209 Denpasar2,352,734
- 223 Makassar2,255,088
- 237 Palembang2,132,576
- 259 Tarogong1,917,036
- 265 Malang1,899,616
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 Denpasar 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 Denpasar 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