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Kendari, 
Indonesia
408,731 people lived in Kendari in 2025. It is the 1383rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 51st largest in Indonesia.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Kendari's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kendari grew
For every 10 people in Kendari in 1975, there were 72.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 485,522 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Kendari through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kendari 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 Kendari; 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, Kendari covered 84 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people are 7.2 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, 1 lived in Kendari, which is 408,731 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Kendari. 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
- 1379 Mazatlán Mexico409,143
- 1380 Dongtai China409,015
- 1381 Uíge Angola408,927
- 1382 Makurdi Nigeria408,753
- 1383 Kendari408,731
- 1384 Huế Vietnam408,692
- 1385 Waidhan India408,489
- 1386 Zhaodong China407,507
- 1387 Hat Yai Thailand407,059
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1260 Blitar442,219
- 1313 Gresik426,246
- 1338 Probolinggo420,356
- 1378 Nganjuk409,447
- 1383 Kendari408,731
- 1430 Madiun397,871
- 1460 Rangkasbitung389,934
- 1501 Bengkulu378,066
- 1510 Timika375,910
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 Kendari 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 Kendari 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