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Kupang, 
Indonesia
538,998 people lived in Kupang in 2025. It is the 1026th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 39th 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 Kupang'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 Kupang grew
Where Kupang had 10 people in 1975, it had 31.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 608,165 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Kupang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kupang 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 Kupang; 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, Kupang covered 119 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 76%, and its people are 3.1 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 Indonesia
Its share of Indonesia
Of every 1,000 people in Indonesia in 2025, 2 lived in Kupang, which is 538,998 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 Kupang's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1022 Honolulu United States540,683
- 1023 Matamoros Mexico540,236
- 1024 Tirupati India539,275
- 1025 Mbeya Tanzania539,248
- 1026 Kupang538,998
- 1027 Shaoyang China538,432
- 1028 Fengrun China538,206
- 1029 Xianyang China537,601
- 1030 Buram Sudan537,169
In Indonesia, 2025
- 987 Ambon555,651
- 1002 Purwakarta549,480
- 1010 Cilacap544,657
- 1021 Kendal541,030
- 1026 Kupang538,998
- 1055 Jember522,844
- 1082 Gorontalo513,078
- 1112 Balung497,754
- 1156 Kediri480,038
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 Kupang 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 Kupang 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