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Aksu, 
China
320,179 people lived in Aksu in 2025. It is the 1796th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 330th largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Aksu's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Aksu grew
For every 10 people in Aksu in 1975, there were 26.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 344,973 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Aksu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Aksu in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Aksu is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, 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, Aksu covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 2.7 times 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 China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Aksu in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1792 Quảng Ngãi Vietnam320,907
- 1793 Famenin Iran320,591
- 1794 Trabzon Türkiye320,468
- 1795 Ranipet India320,233
- 1796 Aksu320,179
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira] Venezuela320,109
- 1798 Balurghat India319,934
- 1799 Deir el-Balah Palestine319,915
- 1800 Raichur India319,647
In China, 2025
- 1768 Kaiping324,576
- 1773 Lieshan323,702
- 1775 Huangshan323,492
- 1790 Chuzhou321,424
- 1796 Aksu320,179
- 1803 Zhangqiu319,153
- 1805 Qili318,490
- 1815 Guiping315,905
- 1820 Miluo315,273
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 Aksu 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 Aksu 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