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Sumedang, 
Indonesia
324,936 people lived in Sumedang in 2025. It is the 1767th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 60th largest in Indonesia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Sumedang governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sumedang grew
For every 10 people in Sumedang in 1975, there were 29.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 397,447 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Sumedang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sumedang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sumedang is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Indonesia in 2025, 389 in all, led by Jakarta, 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, Sumedang covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.3 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 to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 2.9 times as many.
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, 1 lived in Sumedang, which is 324,936 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 Sumedang; 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
- 1763 Khanakul India325,882
- 1764 Sanandaj Iran325,425
- 1765 Jiaonan China325,383
- 1766 Canoas Brazil325,022
- 1767 Sumedang324,936
- 1768 Kaiping China324,576
- 1769 Uruapan Mexico324,219
- 1770 Pandeglang324,139
- 1771 Khorramabad Iran324,110
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1638 Palu348,948
- 1665 Banda Aceh343,382
- 1706 Duri335,728
- 1707 Indramayu335,572
- 1767 Sumedang324,936
- 1770 Pandeglang324,139
- 1774 Bodeh323,511
- 1807 Dumai317,280
- 1836 Kebumen312,542
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 Sumedang 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 Sumedang 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