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Baishan, 
China
495,030 people lived in Baishan in 2025. It is the 1119th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 209th largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Baishan grew
For every 10 people in Baishan in 1975, there were 38.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 442,878 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Baishan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Baishan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,082 cities in China in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Shanghai. The ringed dot in colour is Baishan; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Baishan covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.6 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 Baishan in 2025 — about 1 in 2,857.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1115 Bloemfontein South Africa496,295
- 1116 Sousse Tunisia495,877
- 1117 Huludao495,819
- 1118 Osh Kyrgyzstan495,400
- 1119 Baishan495,030
- 1120 Fatehpur India494,897
- 1121 Poznan Poland494,839
- 1122 Ibagué Colombia494,316
- 1123 Karnal India494,241
In China, 2025
- 1100 Anqing503,036
- 1106 Anshun499,794
- 1114 Yangjiang496,608
- 1117 Huludao495,819
- 1119 Baishan495,030
- 1125 Siping493,984
- 1129 Dezhou493,272
- 1142 Enshi485,222
- 1147 Huzhou483,361
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Baishan 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 Baishan 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 →
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