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Anshan, 
China
1,322,386 people lived in Anshan in 2025. It is the 388th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 60th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Anshan governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Anshan grew
Count 10 people in Anshan in 1975 and the same count gives 13.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Anshan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Anshan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Anshan 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, Anshan covered 113 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 36 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 48%, and its people have grown by 37%.
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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Anshan, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: shrink China to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Anshan; 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
- 384 Cần Thơ Vietnam1,327,741
- 385 Zhongshan1,326,078
- 386 Samarinda Indonesia1,325,554
- 387 Kishoreganj Bangladesh1,324,096
- 388 Anshan1,322,386
- 389 Managua Nicaragua1,315,865
- 390 Yichang1,314,779
- 391 Asunción Paraguay1,314,663
- 392 Guwahati India1,314,019
In China, 2025
- 362 Liuzhou1,400,880
- 372 Xining1,360,245
- 375 Huaiyin District1,349,827
- 385 Zhongshan1,326,078
- 388 Anshan1,322,386
- 390 Yichang1,314,779
- 414 Zhangzhou1,232,911
- 424 Ganzhou1,216,248
- 439 Yueqing1,160,214
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Anshan 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 Anshan 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