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Gorontalo, 
Indonesia
513,078 people lived in Gorontalo in 2025. It is the 1082nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 41st 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 Gorontalo grew
Where Gorontalo had 10 people in 1975, it had 28.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 609,924 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Gorontalo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gorontalo 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). Gorontalo 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, Gorontalo covered 96 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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, 2 lived in Gorontalo, which is 513,078 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Gorontalo. 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
- 1078 Zhuji China515,549
- 1079 Chenzhou China514,905
- 1080 Saurimo Angola514,728
- 1081 Zamboanga City Philippines513,813
- 1082 Gorontalo513,078
- 1083 Tongliao China512,445
- 1084 Mau India512,415
- 1085 Tianshui China511,831
- 1086 Roorkee India511,291
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1010 Cilacap544,657
- 1021 Kendal541,030
- 1026 Kupang538,998
- 1055 Jember522,844
- 1082 Gorontalo513,078
- 1112 Balung497,754
- 1156 Kediri480,038
- 1160 Jombang478,051
- 1196 Manado464,793
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 Gorontalo 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 Gorontalo 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