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Manado, 
Indonesia
464,793 people lived in Manado in 2025. It is the 1196th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 45th largest in Indonesia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Manado 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 Manado grew
Count 10 people in Manado in 1975 and the same count gives 24.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 610,994 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Manado through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Manado 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 Manado; 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, Manado covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 88%, and its people are 2.4 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 Manado, which is 464,793 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 Manado; 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
- 1192 Ichalkaranji India465,814
- 1193 Jundiaí Brazil465,531
- 1194 Tongxiang China465,450
- 1195 Balia India465,399
- 1196 Manado464,793
- 1197 Shanwei China464,738
- 1198 San Juan Argentina464,466
- 1199 Meizhou China464,343
- 1200 Bijie China463,837
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1082 Gorontalo513,078
- 1112 Balung497,754
- 1156 Kediri480,038
- 1160 Jombang478,051
- 1196 Manado464,793
- 1247 Pematang Siantar446,269
- 1260 Blitar442,219
- 1313 Gresik426,246
- 1338 Probolinggo420,356
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 Manado 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 Manado 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