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Anlu, 
China
293,857 people lived in Anlu in 2025. It is the 1979th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 364th 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 Anlu'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 Anlu grew
Where Anlu had 10 people in 1975, it had 52 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 247,639 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Anlu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Anlu in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Anlu 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, Anlu covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.1 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 5.2 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Anlu in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1975 Lichinga Mozambique294,317
- 1976 Chingola Zambia294,193
- 1977 Matala Angola294,087
- 1978 Chhindwara India293,950
- 1979 Anlu293,857
- 1980 Shahrisabz Uzbekistan293,849
- 1981 Bohicon Benin293,833
- 1982 San-Pédro Côte d’Ivoire293,698
- 1983 Lausanne Switzerland293,509
In China, 2025
- 1958 Renqiu295,917
- 1963 Pinghu295,531
- 1966 Hechuan295,189
- 1968 Yanjiao294,943
- 1979 Anlu293,857
- 1990 Bayannur291,787
- 2001 Baicheng290,420
- 2017 Huilai288,590
- 2018 Weinan288,582
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 Anlu 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 Anlu 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