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Kuala Terengganu, 
Malaysia
326,615 people lived in Kuala Terengganu in 2025. It is the 1759th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Malaysia.
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 Kuala Terengganu grew
Where Kuala Terengganu had 10 people in 1975, it had 61.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 537,493 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Kuala Terengganu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kuala Terengganu in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Malaysia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 42 cities in Malaysia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kuala Lumpur. The ringed dot in colour is Kuala Terengganu; 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, Kuala Terengganu covered 139 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 63 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.7 times its size, and its people are 6.1 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 Malaysia
Its share of Malaysia
Of every 1,000 people in Malaysia in 2025, 9 lived in Kuala Terengganu, which is 326,615 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Malaysia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kuala Terengganu's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1755 Baoshan China327,416
- 1756 Girga Egypt327,081
- 1757 Xiangtan China326,965
- 1758 Bhadohi India326,738
- 1759 Kuala Terengganu326,615
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón Mexico326,226
- 1761 Port-de-Paix Haiti326,041
- 1762 Rishikesh India325,933
- 1763 Khanakul India325,882
In Malaysia, 2025
- 1287 Seremban434,530
- 1412 Sandakan400,980
- 1515 Tawau375,573
- 1527 Kuantan373,353
- 1759 Kuala Terengganu326,615
- 1852 Sungai Petani310,566
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 Kuala Terengganu 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 Kuala Terengganu 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