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Baochi, 
China
298,433 people lived in Baochi in 2025. It is the 1931st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 353rd largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Baochi is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Baochi grew
For every 10 people in Baochi in 1975, there were 55.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 316,453 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Baochi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Baochi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Baochi 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, Baochi covered 54 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 to 9.4 times its size, and its people are 5.5 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Baochi in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1926 Gold Coast Australia298,750
- 1927 Novokuznetsk Russia298,733
- 1928 Fungurume Democratic Republic of the Congo298,713
- 1930 Asahikawa Japan298,481
- 1931 Baochi298,433
- 1932 Bojonegoro Indonesia298,285
- 1934 Arlington Heights United States298,081
- 1935 Guigang298,077
- 1937 Shengzhou297,906
In China, 2025
- 1889 Gao'an304,111
- 1897 Zhaotong302,089
- 1902 Changxing301,206
- 1922 Yongcheng299,180
- 1931 Baochi298,433
- 1935 Guigang298,077
- 1937 Shengzhou297,906
- 1938 Xiantao297,859
- 1949 Wenjiang296,976
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 Baochi 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 Baochi 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