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Purwakarta, 
Indonesia
549,480 people lived in Purwakarta in 2025. It is the 1002nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th 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 Purwakarta'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 Purwakarta grew
Where Purwakarta had 10 people in 1975, it had 33.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 807,778 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Purwakarta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Purwakarta 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). Purwakarta 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, Purwakarta covered 113 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.9 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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, 2 lived in Purwakarta, which is 549,480 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 Purwakarta; 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
- 998 Boumerdes Algeria550,700
- 999 Bahraich India550,317
- 1000 Riga Latvia550,267
- 1001 Sheffield United Kingdom549,695
- 1002 Purwakarta549,480
- 1003 Kikwit Democratic Republic of the Congo549,102
- 1004 Port Louis Mauritius549,015
- 1005 Arrah India547,584
- 1006 Meishan China546,811
In Indonesia, 2025
- 850 Kuningan636,447
- 888 Cipanas610,177
- 963 Selong568,139
- 987 Ambon555,651
- 1002 Purwakarta549,480
- 1010 Cilacap544,657
- 1021 Kendal541,030
- 1026 Kupang538,998
- 1055 Jember522,844
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 Purwakarta 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 Purwakarta 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