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Kudus, 
Indonesia
671,940 people lived in Kudus in 2025. It is the 810th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 30th largest in Indonesia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kudus 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 Kudus grew
For every 10 people in Kudus in 1975, there were 19.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 606,724 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
Kudus through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kudus 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). Kudus 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, Kudus covered 164 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 92%.
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, 2 lived in Kudus, which is 671,940 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Kudus. 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
- 806 Sha Tin Hong Kong674,476
- 807 Calabar Nigeria673,427
- 808 Jiamusi China673,406
- 809 Likasi Democratic Republic of the Congo673,034
- 810 Kudus671,940
- 811 Veracruz Mexico668,350
- 812 Palermo Italy667,442
- 813 Maradi Niger666,205
- 814 Changwon South Korea665,772
In Indonesia, 2025
- 655 Pontianak808,759
- 735 Tulungagung728,924
- 736 Balikpapan728,771
- 751 Jepara714,514
- 810 Kudus671,940
- 844 Magelang640,707
- 850 Kuningan636,447
- 888 Cipanas610,177
- 963 Selong568,139
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 Kudus 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 Kudus 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