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Seremban, 
Malaysia
434,530 people lived in Seremban in 2025. It is the 1287th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Malaysia.
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 Seremban grew
Where Seremban had 10 people in 1975, it had 57.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 588,842 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Seremban through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Seremban in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Malaysia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Seremban is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Malaysia in 2025, 42 in all, led by Kuala Lumpur, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Seremban covered 120 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 64 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.5 times its size, and its people are 5.7 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 Malaysia
Its share of Malaysia
Of every 100 people in Malaysia in 2025, 1 lived in Seremban, which is 434,530 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Malaysia, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Seremban's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1283 Pabna Bangladesh436,119
- 1284 Sterling Heights United States435,980
- 1285 Sambhal India435,760
- 1286 Gaozhou China435,368
- 1287 Seremban434,530
- 1288 Bhilwara India434,406
- 1289 Daska Pakistan433,772
- 1290 Shizhong China433,213
- 1291 Mbandaka Democratic Republic of the Congo432,976
In Malaysia, 2025
- 931 Kuching586,880
- 986 Malacca City555,703
- 1071 Bukit Mertajam517,326
- 1210 Kota Bharu460,445
- 1287 Seremban434,530
- 1412 Sandakan400,980
- 1515 Tawau375,573
- 1527 Kuantan373,353
- 1759 Kuala Terengganu326,615
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Seremban 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 Seremban 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