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Binhai New Area, 
China
1,017,230 people lived in Binhai New Area in 2025. It is the 506th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 72nd 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Binhai New Area grew
Count 10 people in Binhai New Area in 1975 and the same count gives 27.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Binhai New Area through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Binhai New Area 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 Binhai New Area; 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, Binhai New Area covered 185 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 50 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 2.7 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Binhai New Area, which is 1.0 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Binhai New Area. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 502 Marrakesh Morocco1,021,530
- 503 Otite Nigeria1,020,218
- 504 Tanta Egypt1,018,577
- 505 Luohe1,018,295
- 506 Binhai New Area1,017,230
- 507 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates1,016,460
- 508 Hải Phòng Vietnam1,015,494
- 509 Helsingfors Finland1,014,317
- 510 Cartagena Colombia1,008,584
In China, 2025
- 473 Kaifeng1,087,088
- 477 Zhangjiagang1,068,192
- 483 Honghuagang1,062,992
- 505 Luohe1,018,295
- 506 Binhai New Area1,017,230
- 512 Jinhua998,519
- 518 Shiyan992,165
- 520 Shunqing990,466
- 522 Linyi987,615
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 Binhai New Area 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 Binhai New Area 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