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Beibei, 
China
527,806 people lived in Beibei in 2025. It is the 1050th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 190th 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 Beibei's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Beibei grew
Where Beibei had 10 people in 1975, it had 48.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 448,042 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Beibei through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Beibei 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). Beibei 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, Beibei covered 54 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.0 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.8 times its size, and its people are 4.9 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 Beibei in 2025 — about 1 in 2,703.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1046 Leicester United Kingdom530,264
- 1047 Hatay Türkiye530,262
- 1048 Homel Belarus529,882
- 1049 Feira de Santana Brazil529,185
- 1050 Beibei527,806
- 1051 Langfang527,161
- 1052 Maroua Cameroon526,702
- 1053 Rohtak India526,540
- 1054 Astrakhan Russia524,085
In China, 2025
- 1028 Fengrun538,206
- 1029 Xianyang537,601
- 1035 Bengbu535,096
- 1044 Bozhou531,429
- 1050 Beibei527,806
- 1051 Langfang527,161
- 1062 Liling520,239
- 1065 Liaocheng519,411
- 1069 Dongsheng518,080
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 Beibei 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 Beibei 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