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Timika, 
Indonesia
375,910 people lived in Timika in 2025. It is the 1510th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 55th 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 Timika grew
For every 10 people in Timika in 2010, there were 31.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 852,618 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Timika through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Timika in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Timika 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, Timika covered 36 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.1 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 70%, and its people are 3.1 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 Timika, which is 375,910 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Timika. 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
- 1506 Gamboru Nigeria376,374
- 1507 Mirpur Khas Pakistan376,343
- 1508 Stavropol Russia376,062
- 1509 Tirunelveli India376,005
- 1510 Timika375,910
- 1511 Xinghua China375,876
- 1512 Lalpur Bangladesh375,833
- 1513 Posadas Argentina375,741
- 1514 Viluppuram India375,616
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1383 Kendari408,731
- 1430 Madiun397,871
- 1460 Rangkasbitung389,934
- 1501 Bengkulu378,066
- 1510 Timika375,910
- 1638 Palu348,948
- 1665 Banda Aceh343,382
- 1706 Duri335,728
- 1707 Indramayu335,572
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 Timika are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Timika 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