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Elelim, 
Indonesia
215,216 people lived in Elelim in 2025. It is the 2743rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 90th 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 Elelim grew
Count 10 people in Elelim in 2010 and the same count gives 31 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 510,424 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Elelim through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Elelim 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). Elelim 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, Elelim covered 17 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.4 km² of it.
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, 1 lived in Elelim, which is 215,216 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Elelim. 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
- 2730 Vientiane Laos216,305
- 2734 Kahemba Democratic Republic of the Congo215,825
- 2736 Kabongo Democratic Republic of the Congo215,612
- 2737 Asella Ethiopia215,594
- 2743 Elelim215,216
- 2746 Manokwari214,949
- 2752 Baraut India214,706
- 2762 Arifwala Pakistan214,409
- 2765 Rutshuru Democratic Republic of the Congo214,158
In Indonesia, 2025
- 2174 Ternate267,842
- 2388 Subang244,383
- 2401 Merauke243,395
- 2710 Tembilahan218,371
- 2743 Elelim215,216
- 2746 Manokwari214,949
- 2774 Mulia213,704
- 3161 Nabire190,211
- 3232 Jayapura186,856
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 Elelim are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Elelim 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