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Jayapura, 
Indonesia
186,856 people lived in Jayapura in 2025. It is the 3232nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 108th largest in Indonesia.
Like every city on this site, Jayapura is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jayapura grew
Count 10 people in Jayapura in 1995 and the same count gives 32.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 346,632 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Jayapura through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jayapura 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 Jayapura; 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, Jayapura covered 36 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.5 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown by 46%, and its people are 3.2 times as many.
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 Jayapura, which is 186,856 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 Jayapura; 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
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan Sudan188,089
- 3214 Guider Cameroon187,887
- 3217 Domariaganj India187,658
- 3224 Cafunfo Angola187,253
- 3232 Jayapura186,856
- 3238 Bangkinang186,431
- 3241 Balcad Somalia186,328
- 3247 Meja Road India186,137
- 3249 Naivasha Kenya185,944
In Indonesia, 2025
- 2743 Elelim215,216
- 2746 Manokwari214,949
- 2774 Mulia213,704
- 3161 Nabire190,211
- 3232 Jayapura186,856
- 3238 Bangkinang186,431
- 3258 Biak Kota184,918
- 4014 Tanjung Pinang150,872
- 4208 Bontang145,118
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 Jayapura are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Jayapura 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