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Baoji, 
China
823,847 people lived in Baoji in 2025. It is the 637th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 95th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Baoji 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 Baoji grew
For every 10 people in Baoji in 1975, there were 15.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 746,653 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
Baoji through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Baoji 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 Baoji; 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, Baoji covered 143 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 57%.
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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Baoji, which is 823,847 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 Baoji; 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
- 633 Nsukka Nigeria830,196
- 634 Hodeidah Yemen827,012
- 635 Ibb Yemen826,974
- 636 Imphal India824,757
- 637 Baoji823,847
- 638 Ipoh Malaysia823,097
- 639 Huangshi821,445
- 640 Vellore India820,103
- 641 Kolhapur India819,671
In China, 2025
- 612 Jinzhou854,575
- 614 Haizhou District850,645
- 626 Fuyang839,236
- 630 Tengzhou834,697
- 637 Baoji823,847
- 639 Huangshi821,445
- 652 Quzhou811,735
- 657 Jining803,706
- 664 Qinhuangdao797,748
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 Baoji 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 Baoji 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