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Gresik, 
Indonesia
426,246 people lived in Gresik in 2025. It is the 1313th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 48th 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 Gresik grew
Where Gresik had 10 people in 1975, it had 15.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 398,602 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
Gresik through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gresik 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 Gresik; 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, Gresik covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 58%.
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, 1 lived in Gresik, which is 426,246 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 Gresik's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1309 Wiesbaden Germany427,270
- 1310 Burao Somalia427,013
- 1311 Hanchuan China426,922
- 1312 Orenburg Russia426,263
- 1313 Gresik426,246
- 1314 Longquanyi China426,144
- 1315 Dere Nigeria425,674
- 1316 Torit South Sudan424,731
- 1317 Ranghulu China424,460
In Indonesia, 2025
- 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
- 1430 Madiun397,871
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Gresik 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 Gresik 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