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Gunung Lingkas, 
Indonesia
271,868 people lived in Gunung Lingkas in 2025. It is the 2139th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 74th 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Gunung Lingkas grew
Where Gunung Lingkas had 10 people in 1990, it had 43.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 431,833 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Gunung Lingkas through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gunung Lingkas 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). Gunung Lingkas 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, Gunung Lingkas covered 40 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.6 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown by 94%, and its people are 4.4 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, 1 lived in Gunung Lingkas, which is 271,868 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 Gunung Lingkas; 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
- 2132 Cabanatuan Philippines272,890
- 2133 Nzérékoré Guinea272,866
- 2134 Dalla India272,778
- 2138 Guna India271,913
- 2139 Gunung Lingkas271,868
- 2140 Zacatecas Mexico271,829
- 2141 Chengarchar Bangladesh271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon Bangladesh271,454
- 2148 Kimberley South Africa271,078
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1959 Wonosobo295,758
- 1991 Pangkalpinang291,683
- 2056 Pemalang282,807
- 2059 Kemangkon282,463
- 2139 Gunung Lingkas271,868
- 2174 Ternate267,842
- 2388 Subang244,383
- 2401 Merauke243,395
- 2710 Tembilahan218,371
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 Gunung Lingkas are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Gunung Lingkas 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