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Kebumen, 
Indonesia
312,542 people lived in Kebumen in 2025. It is the 1836th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 64th largest in Indonesia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kebumen governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kebumen grew
Count 10 people in Kebumen in 1975 and the same count gives 6.5 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 274,296 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
Kebumen through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kebumen 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). Kebumen 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, Kebumen covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.7 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people have fallen by 35%.
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 Kebumen, which is 312,542 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 Kebumen's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1832 Samalut Egypt313,324
- 1833 Girza Egypt312,801
- 1834 Uberaba Brazil312,745
- 1835 Lufeng China312,588
- 1836 Kebumen312,542
- 1837 Bidar India312,534
- 1838 Antsiramandroso Madagascar312,434
- 1839 Vizianagaram India312,315
- 1840 Holguín Cuba312,173
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1767 Sumedang324,936
- 1770 Pandeglang324,139
- 1774 Bodeh323,511
- 1807 Dumai317,280
- 1836 Kebumen312,542
- 1908 Singaraja300,490
- 1919 Bukittinggi299,353
- 1921 Sorong299,181
- 1932 Bojonegoro298,285
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 Kebumen 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 Kebumen 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