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Yogyakarta, 
Indonesia
2,793,747 people lived in Yogyakarta in 2025. It is the 179th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th 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 Yogyakarta grew
Count 10 people in Yogyakarta in 1975 and the same count gives 16 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.4 million people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Yogyakarta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yogyakarta 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 Yogyakarta; 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, Yogyakarta covered 653 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 127 km² of it. That is 46 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 60%.
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, 10 lived in Yogyakarta, which is 2.8 million 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 Yogyakarta; 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
- 175 Guatemala City Guatemala2,837,708
- 176 Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo2,832,853
- 177 Tasikmalaya2,827,255
- 178 Dalian China2,796,248
- 179 Yogyakarta2,793,747
- 180 Agra India2,786,762
- 181 Naples Italy2,767,923
- 182 Conacry Guinea2,727,684
- 183 Essen Germany2,717,087
In Indonesia, 2025
- 40 Bandung8,909,104
- 54 Surabaya6,843,503
- 102 Medan4,245,895
- 177 Tasikmalaya2,827,255
- 179 Yogyakarta2,793,747
- 186 Semarang2,679,349
- 209 Denpasar2,352,734
- 223 Makassar2,255,088
- 237 Palembang2,132,576
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 Yogyakarta 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 Yogyakarta 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