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Baicheng, 
China
290,420 people lived in Baicheng in 2025. It is the 2001st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 367th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Baicheng 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 Baicheng grew
Where Baicheng had 10 people in 1975, it had 11.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 257,374 people in 2050.
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
Baicheng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Baicheng 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). Baicheng 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, Baicheng covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 92%, and its people have grown by 12%.
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 Baicheng in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1996 Louisville United States291,103
- 1997 Kursk Russia291,098
- 1998 Euclid United States290,669
- 1999 Nawada India290,657
- 2001 Baicheng290,420
- 2002 Habra India290,311
- 2003 Taloqan Afghanistan290,028
- 2007 Okrika Nigeria289,429
- 2008 Maheshkhunt India289,419
In China, 2025
- 1966 Hechuan295,189
- 1968 Yanjiao294,943
- 1979 Anlu293,857
- 1990 Bayannur291,787
- 2001 Baicheng290,420
- 2017 Huilai288,590
- 2018 Weinan288,582
- 2055 Sanhe282,844
- 2062 Suizhou282,058
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 Baicheng 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 Baicheng 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