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Purwokerto, 
Indonesia
1,331,010 people lived in Purwokerto in 2025. It is the 382nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th 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 Purwokerto'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 Purwokerto grew
For every 10 people in Purwokerto in 1975, there were 11.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050.
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
Purwokerto through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Purwokerto 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 Purwokerto; 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, Purwokerto covered 327 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 41 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 17%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Indonesia
Its share of Indonesia
Of every 1,000 people in Indonesia in 2025, 5 lived in Purwokerto, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Purwokerto. 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
- 378 Bishkek Kyrgyzstan1,343,048
- 379 Mysuru India1,342,126
- 380 Salem India1,337,000
- 381 Novosibirsk Russia1,331,432
- 382 Purwokerto1,331,010
- 383 Mardan Pakistan1,330,031
- 384 Cần Thơ Vietnam1,327,741
- 385 Zhongshan China1,326,078
- 386 Samarinda1,325,554
In Indonesia, 2025
- 282 Slawi1,733,437
- 318 Cirebon1,566,821
- 326 Surakarta1,538,599
- 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
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 Purwokerto 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 Purwokerto 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