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Magelang, 
Indonesia
640,707 people lived in Magelang in 2025. It is the 844th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 31st largest in Indonesia.
Like every city on this site, Magelang is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Magelang grew
Count 10 people in Magelang in 1975 and the same count gives 11.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 554,794 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
Magelang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Magelang 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 Magelang; 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, Magelang covered 148 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 13%.
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 Magelang, which is 640,707 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 Magelang's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 840 Jalpaiguri India642,158
- 841 Bauchi Nigeria642,082
- 842 Rangpur Bangladesh641,327
- 843 Kumamoto Japan641,185
- 844 Magelang640,707
- 845 Cancún Mexico637,532
- 846 Jiangyin China637,502
- 847 Morelia Mexico637,430
- 848 Jeonju South Korea637,082
In Indonesia, 2025
- 735 Tulungagung728,924
- 736 Balikpapan728,771
- 751 Jepara714,514
- 810 Kudus671,940
- 844 Magelang640,707
- 850 Kuningan636,447
- 888 Cipanas610,177
- 963 Selong568,139
- 987 Ambon555,651
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Magelang 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 Magelang 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