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Probolinggo, 
Indonesia
420,356 people lived in Probolinggo in 2025. It is the 1338th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 49th largest in Indonesia.
Like every city on this site, Probolinggo is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Probolinggo grew
Where Probolinggo had 10 people in 1975, it had 19.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 386,205 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
Probolinggo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Probolinggo 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 Probolinggo; 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, Probolinggo covered 114 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 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 to 2.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 93%.
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 Probolinggo, which is 420,356 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 Probolinggo; 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
- 1334 Tete Mozambique421,174
- 1335 Kamoke Pakistan421,152
- 1336 Navsari India421,121
- 1337 Giridih India420,525
- 1338 Probolinggo420,356
- 1339 Baidoa Somalia420,281
- 1340 Hosur India420,017
- 1341 Basirhat India419,703
- 1342 Mykolaiv Ukraine419,484
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1196 Manado464,793
- 1247 Pematang Siantar446,269
- 1260 Blitar442,219
- 1313 Gresik426,246
- 1338 Probolinggo420,356
- 1378 Nganjuk409,447
- 1383 Kendari408,731
- 1430 Madiun397,871
- 1460 Rangkasbitung389,934
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 Probolinggo 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 Probolinggo 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