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Pangkalpinang, 
Indonesia
291,683 people lived in Pangkalpinang in 2025. It is the 1991st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 70th 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 Pangkalpinang'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 Pangkalpinang grew
Where Pangkalpinang had 10 people in 1975, it had 33.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 429,651 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Pangkalpinang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pangkalpinang 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 Pangkalpinang; 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, Pangkalpinang covered 58 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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 Pangkalpinang, which is 291,683 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 Pangkalpinang's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1986 Kanyamazane South Africa292,211
- 1987 Matara Sri Lanka292,019
- 1988 Bhadrak India291,997
- 1990 Bayannur China291,787
- 1991 Pangkalpinang291,683
- 1992 Beledweyne Somalia291,630
- 1994 Cherepovets Russia291,159
- 1995 Quetzaltenango Guatemala291,105
- 1996 Louisville United States291,103
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1919 Bukittinggi299,353
- 1921 Sorong299,181
- 1932 Bojonegoro298,285
- 1959 Wonosobo295,758
- 1991 Pangkalpinang291,683
- 2056 Pemalang282,807
- 2059 Kemangkon282,463
- 2139 Gunung Lingkas271,868
- 2174 Ternate267,842
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 Pangkalpinang 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 Pangkalpinang 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