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Anyang, 
China
1,489,112 people lived in Anyang in 2025. It is the 341st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 51st largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Anyang is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Anyang grew
For every 10 people in Anyang in 1975, there were 30.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Anyang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Anyang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Anyang is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Anyang covered 190 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 53 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 2.9 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Anyang, which is 1.5 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Anyang. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 337 Oakland United States1,503,319
- 338 Batam City Indonesia1,500,354
- 339 Stockholm Sweden1,500,093
- 340 Baotou1,491,964
- 341 Anyang1,489,112
- 342 Moradabad India1,484,611
- 343 Taizhou1,483,994
- 344 Kigali Rwanda1,483,711
- 345 Raipur India1,478,688
In China, 2025
- 300 Wuhu1,631,043
- 301 Zibo1,620,676
- 315 Datong1,573,531
- 340 Baotou1,491,964
- 341 Anyang1,489,112
- 343 Taizhou1,483,994
- 347 Xiuying District1,458,377
- 349 Jilin City1,448,955
- 360 Xuzhou1,402,001
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 Anyang 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 Anyang 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