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Binzhou, 
China
576,823 people lived in Binzhou in 2025. It is the 952nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 172nd 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 Binzhou's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Binzhou grew
Where Binzhou had 10 people in 1990, it had 76.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 508,905 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Binzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Binzhou 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 Binzhou; 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, Binzhou covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 51 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 7.7 times as many.
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 Binzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 2,439.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 948 Rasht Iran579,481
- 949 Damanhur Egypt579,215
- 950 Jashore Bangladesh578,026
- 951 Beihai577,338
- 952 Binzhou576,823
- 953 Ballia India576,284
- 954 Valledupar Colombia574,824
- 955 Nakuru Kenya574,091
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan Pakistan572,505
In China, 2025
- 925 Weihai589,850
- 935 Loudi585,521
- 936 Cangzhou585,507
- 951 Beihai577,338
- 952 Binzhou576,823
- 974 Shengze562,800
- 982 Yulin558,277
- 983 Yuncheng558,182
- 985 Shangrao556,394
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 Binzhou are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Binzhou 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