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Padang, 
Indonesia
1,184,342 people lived in Padang in 2025. It is the 436th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 20th 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 Padang'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 Padang grew
Count 10 people in Padang in 1975 and the same count gives 32.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Padang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Padang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Padang 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, Padang covered 211 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 39 km² of it. That is 33 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 3.2 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Indonesia
Its share of Indonesia
Of every 1,000 people in Indonesia in 2025, 4 lived in Padang, which is 1.2 million 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 Padang's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 432 Nizhny Novgorod Russia1,196,944
- 433 Jalandhar India1,192,763
- 434 Oran Algeria1,192,410
- 435 Hiroshima Japan1,185,788
- 436 Padang1,184,342
- 437 Shymkent Kazakhstan1,184,337
- 438 Bandar Lampung1,184,054
- 439 Yueqing China1,160,214
- 440 Cabinda Angola1,157,345
In Indonesia, 2025
- 338 Batam City1,500,354
- 382 Purwokerto1,331,010
- 386 Samarinda1,325,554
- 427 Pekanbaru1,208,872
- 436 Padang1,184,342
- 438 Bandar Lampung1,184,054
- 514 Mataram997,132
- 525 Jambi980,534
- 528 Pekalongan978,519
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 Padang 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 Padang 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