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Nabire, 
Indonesia
190,211 people lived in Nabire in 2025. It is the 3161st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 104th largest in Indonesia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Nabire 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 Nabire grew
For every 10 people in Nabire in 2005, there were 32.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 348,142 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Nabire through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nabire 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 Nabire; 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, Nabire covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.4 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown by 47%, and its people are 3.3 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Indonesia
Its share of Indonesia
Of every 1,000 people in Indonesia in 2025, 1 lived in Nabire, which is 190,211 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 Nabire's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3134 Mocuba Mozambique191,635
- 3150 Al `Udayn Yemen190,661
- 3153 Toraghundi Afghanistan190,543
- 3154 Mokolo Cameroon190,418
- 3161 Nabire190,211
- 3164 Ibrat Uzbekistan189,898
- 3166 Rubaya Democratic Republic of the Congo189,880
- 3167 Ago-Iwoye Nigeria189,841
- 3169 Abu Gharaq Iraq189,692
In Indonesia, 2025
- 2710 Tembilahan218,371
- 2743 Elelim215,216
- 2746 Manokwari214,949
- 2774 Mulia213,704
- 3161 Nabire190,211
- 3232 Jayapura186,856
- 3238 Bangkinang186,431
- 3258 Biak Kota184,918
- 4014 Tanjung Pinang150,872
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 Nabire are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Nabire 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