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Bengbu, 
China
535,096 people lived in Bengbu in 2025. It is the 1035th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 188th 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 Bengbu grew
Count 10 people in Bengbu in 1975 and the same count gives 16 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 498,591 people in 2050.
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
Bengbu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bengbu in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bengbu 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, Bengbu covered 77 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people have grown by 60%.
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 Bengbu in 2025 — about 1 in 2,632.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos Brazil536,073
- 1032 Bettiah India535,979
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela535,164
- 1034 Ndola Zambia535,108
- 1035 Bengbu535,096
- 1036 Swabi Pakistan535,083
- 1037 Shillong India534,861
- 1038 Ahmednagar India534,622
- 1039 Joinville Brazil534,074
In China, 2025
- 1020 Chengtougu541,451
- 1027 Shaoyang538,432
- 1028 Fengrun538,206
- 1029 Xianyang537,601
- 1035 Bengbu535,096
- 1044 Bozhou531,429
- 1050 Beibei527,806
- 1051 Langfang527,161
- 1062 Liling520,239
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 Bengbu 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 Bengbu 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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