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Anqing, 
China
503,036 people lived in Anqing in 2025. It is the 1100th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 205th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Anqing governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Anqing grew
Where Anqing had 10 people in 1975, it had 16.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 463,503 people in 2050.
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
Anqing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Anqing in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Anqing 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, Anqing covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people have grown by 68%.
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 Anqing in 2025 — about 1 in 2,778.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1096 Jingjiang505,098
- 1097 Mansehra Pakistan503,920
- 1098 Bakersfield United States503,676
- 1099 Nha Trang Vietnam503,051
- 1100 Anqing503,036
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez Mexico502,534
- 1102 Barnaul Russia502,491
- 1103 Lakhimpur India501,540
- 1104 Dairut Egypt501,258
In China, 2025
- 1090 Fuxin508,131
- 1091 Shunyi507,591
- 1093 Kashgar506,476
- 1096 Jingjiang505,098
- 1100 Anqing503,036
- 1106 Anshun499,794
- 1114 Yangjiang496,608
- 1117 Huludao495,819
- 1119 Baishan495,030
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 Anqing 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 Anqing 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