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Ankang, 
China
678,483 people lived in Ankang in 2025. It is the 800th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 138th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Ankang is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ankang grew
For every 10 people in Ankang in 1980, there were 80.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 623,573 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Ankang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ankang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,082 cities in China in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Shanghai. The ringed dot in colour is Ankang; 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, Ankang covered 104 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 8 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 China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Ankang in 2025 — about 1 in 2,083.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 796 Winnipeg Canada679,037
- 797 Garoua Cameroon678,769
- 798 Kitwe Zambia678,749
- 799 Jingzhou678,632
- 800 Ankang678,483
- 801 Yamunanagar India677,536
- 802 Mymensingh Bangladesh677,433
- 803 Shangqiu676,590
- 804 Bazhong City675,756
In China, 2025
- 784 Zhoukou689,599
- 791 Longgang681,306
- 794 Youyi680,993
- 799 Jingzhou678,632
- 800 Ankang678,483
- 803 Shangqiu676,590
- 804 Bazhong City675,756
- 808 Jiamusi673,406
- 815 Fushun665,286
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 Ankang are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Ankang 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