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Wonosobo, 
Indonesia
295,758 people lived in Wonosobo in 2025. It is the 1959th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 69th largest in Indonesia.
Like every city on this site, Wonosobo is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Wonosobo grew
Wonosobo had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 236,254 people in 2050.
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
Wonosobo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wonosobo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Indonesia and its 389 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Jakarta). Wonosobo is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Wonosobo covered 66 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.6 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are about 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 Wonosobo, which is 295,758 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 Wonosobo; 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
- 1955 Gumi-si South Korea296,323
- 1956 Tanga Tanzania296,202
- 1957 Kankan Guinea296,159
- 1958 Renqiu China295,917
- 1959 Wonosobo295,758
- 1960 Colima Mexico295,757
- 1962 Ségou Mali295,589
- 1963 Pinghu China295,531
- 1964 Sincelejo Colombia295,401
In Indonesia, 2025
- 1908 Singaraja300,490
- 1919 Bukittinggi299,353
- 1921 Sorong299,181
- 1932 Bojonegoro298,285
- 1959 Wonosobo295,758
- 1991 Pangkalpinang291,683
- 2056 Pemalang282,807
- 2059 Kemangkon282,463
- 2139 Gunung Lingkas271,868
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 Wonosobo 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 Wonosobo 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