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Bozhou, 
China
531,429 people lived in Bozhou in 2025. It is the 1044th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 189th 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 Bozhou's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bozhou grew
Count 10 people in Bozhou in 1975 and the same count gives 85.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 431,130 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
Bozhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bozhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bozhou 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, Bozhou covered 89 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.9 times its size, and its people are 8.5 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 Bozhou in 2025 — about 1 in 2,632.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1040 Novo Hamburgo Brazil533,686
- 1041 Kanazawa Japan533,682
- 1042 Genoa Italy532,509
- 1043 Zahedan Iran531,482
- 1044 Bozhou531,429
- 1045 'Adan Yemen530,573
- 1046 Leicester United Kingdom530,264
- 1047 Hatay Türkiye530,262
- 1048 Homel Belarus529,882
In China, 2025
- 1027 Shaoyang538,432
- 1028 Fengrun538,206
- 1029 Xianyang537,601
- 1035 Bengbu535,096
- 1044 Bozhou531,429
- 1050 Beibei527,806
- 1051 Langfang527,161
- 1062 Liling520,239
- 1065 Liaocheng519,411
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 Bozhou 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 Bozhou 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