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Baoshan, 
China
327,416 people lived in Baoshan in 2025. It is the 1755th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 323rd largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Baoshan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Baoshan grew
For every 10 people in Baoshan in 1975, there were 62.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 308,061 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: 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
Baoshan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Baoshan 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). Baoshan 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, Baoshan covered 84 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 6.3 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Baoshan in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1751 Tezpur India328,217
- 1752 Puri India328,196
- 1753 Balıkesir Türkiye328,080
- 1754 Tacna Peru327,582
- 1755 Baoshan327,416
- 1756 Girga Egypt327,081
- 1757 Xiangtan326,965
- 1758 Bhadohi India326,738
- 1759 Kuala Terengganu Malaysia326,615
In China, 2025
- 1738 Xuanwei330,467
- 1739 Dashiqiao330,302
- 1749 Shangyu District328,545
- 1750 Ya'an328,287
- 1755 Baoshan327,416
- 1757 Xiangtan326,965
- 1765 Jiaonan325,383
- 1768 Kaiping324,576
- 1773 Lieshan323,702
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 Baoshan 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 Baoshan 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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