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Bijie, 
China
463,837 people lived in Bijie in 2025. It is the 1200th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 228th 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 Bijie grew
Count 10 people in Bijie in 1985 and the same count gives 80.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 450,488 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Bijie through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bijie in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bijie 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, Bijie covered 34 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.7 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5.2 times its size, and its people are 8.1 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 Bijie in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1196 Manado Indonesia464,793
- 1197 Shanwei464,738
- 1198 San Juan Argentina464,466
- 1199 Meizhou464,343
- 1200 Bijie463,837
- 1201 Haldwani India463,530
- 1202 West Valley City United States463,325
- 1203 Yuhu462,605
- 1204 Yanji461,800
In China, 2025
- 1190 Yangquan467,148
- 1194 Tongxiang465,450
- 1197 Shanwei464,738
- 1199 Meizhou464,343
- 1200 Bijie463,837
- 1203 Yuhu462,605
- 1204 Yanji461,800
- 1216 Jiaozhou457,288
- 1232 Jiangyang452,500
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 Bijie are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Bijie 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