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Ternate, 
Indonesia
267,842 people lived in Ternate in 2025. It is the 2174th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 75th 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ternate grew
Where Ternate had 10 people in 1975, it had 52.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 419,424 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Ternate through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ternate 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 Ternate; 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, Ternate covered 37 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.0 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 2.3 times its size, and its people are 5.2 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 Ternate, which is 267,842 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 Ternate's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2168 Vologda Russia268,759
- 2169 Constanța Romania268,757
- 2170 Chhatarpur India268,598
- 2171 Muzaffarabad Pakistan268,448
- 2174 Ternate267,842
- 2176 Bellevue United States267,696
- 2177 Kabwe Zambia267,618
- 2178 Lafia Nigeria267,580
- 2180 Agbor Nigeria267,341
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1991 Pangkalpinang291,683
- 2056 Pemalang282,807
- 2059 Kemangkon282,463
- 2139 Gunung Lingkas271,868
- 2174 Ternate267,842
- 2388 Subang244,383
- 2401 Merauke243,395
- 2710 Tembilahan218,371
- 2743 Elelim215,216
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 Ternate 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 Ternate 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