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Malang, 
Indonesia
1,899,616 people lived in Malang in 2025. It is the 265th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 12th largest in Indonesia.
Like every city on this site, Malang 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 Malang grew
For every 10 people in Malang in 1975, there were 16.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.7 million people in 2050.
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
Malang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Malang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Malang is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Indonesia in 2025, 389 in all, led by Jakarta, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Malang covered 330 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 60 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 by 80%, and its people have grown by 61%.
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, 7 lived in Malang, which is 1.9 million people.
How to read this: shrink Indonesia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Malang; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 261 Lisbon Portugal1,913,798
- 262 Bucharest Romania1,909,536
- 263 Sialkot Pakistan1,907,978
- 264 Bibhutpur India1,904,411
- 265 Malang1,899,616
- 266 Kaduna Nigeria1,890,448
- 267 Warsaw Poland1,882,756
- 268 Monrovia Liberia1,879,092
- 269 Putian China1,871,858
In Indonesia, 2025
- 209 Denpasar2,352,734
- 223 Makassar2,255,088
- 237 Palembang2,132,576
- 259 Tarogong1,917,036
- 265 Malang1,899,616
- 282 Slawi1,733,437
- 318 Cirebon1,566,821
- 326 Surakarta1,538,599
- 338 Batam City1,500,354
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 Malang 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 Malang 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