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Pemalang, 
Indonesia
282,807 people lived in Pemalang in 2025. It is the 2056th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 71st largest in Indonesia.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Pemalang grew
Count 10 people in Pemalang in 1975 and the same count gives 7.4 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 246,626 people in 2050.
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
Pemalang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pemalang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Indonesia and its 389 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Jakarta). Pemalang is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Pemalang covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.4 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 54%, and its people have fallen by 26%.
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 Pemalang, which is 282,807 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Pemalang. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2050 Koutiala Mali283,496
- 2053 Awka Nigeria283,069
- 2054 Boisar India283,063
- 2055 Sanhe China282,844
- 2056 Pemalang282,807
- 2057 Ziguinchor Senegal282,751
- 2058 Chía Colombia282,679
- 2059 Kemangkon282,463
- 2060 Al Majidi Yemen282,395
In Indonesia, 2025
- 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
- 2388 Subang244,383
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 Pemalang 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 Pemalang 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