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Tembilahan, 
Indonesia
218,371 people lived in Tembilahan in 2025. It is the 2710th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 89th largest in Indonesia.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tembilahan grew
For every 10 people in Tembilahan in 1975, there were 22.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 305,272 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Tembilahan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tembilahan 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 Tembilahan; 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, Tembilahan covered 21 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.2 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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 Indonesia
Its share of Indonesia
Of every 1,000 people in Indonesia in 2025, 1 lived in Tembilahan, which is 218,371 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Indonesia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Tembilahan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2680 Chlef Algeria220,634
- 2693 Gagnoa Côte d’Ivoire219,607
- 2694 Dhampur India219,479
- 2706 Omuo-Obadore Nigeria218,751
- 2710 Tembilahan218,371
- 2713 Okitipupa Nigeria218,097
- 2715 Botshabelo-N South Africa218,046
- 2717 Dinjway Egypt217,913
- 2728 Bumba Democratic Republic of the Congo216,429
In Indonesia, 2025
- 2139 Gunung Lingkas271,868
- 2174 Ternate267,842
- 2388 Subang244,383
- 2401 Merauke243,395
- 2710 Tembilahan218,371
- 2743 Elelim215,216
- 2746 Manokwari214,949
- 2774 Mulia213,704
- 3161 Nabire190,211
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 Tembilahan 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 Tembilahan 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