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Cangzhou, 
China
585,507 people lived in Cangzhou in 2025. It is the 936th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 170th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Cangzhou is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cangzhou grew
Where Cangzhou had 10 people in 1975, it had 25.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 526,847 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Cangzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cangzhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Cangzhou is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Cangzhou covered 126 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 33 km² of it. That is 57 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Cangzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 2,439.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 932 Izhevsk Russia586,811
- 933 Yenagoa Nigeria586,393
- 934 Zaragoza Spain585,533
- 935 Loudi585,521
- 936 Cangzhou585,507
- 937 Adama Ethiopia584,854
- 938 Ujjain India583,405
- 939 Madalla Nigeria583,367
- 940 Oujda Morocco583,116
In China, 2025
- 915 Huiyang596,451
- 921 Yongchuan590,694
- 925 Weihai589,850
- 935 Loudi585,521
- 936 Cangzhou585,507
- 951 Beihai577,338
- 952 Binzhou576,823
- 974 Shengze562,800
- 982 Yulin558,277
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 Cangzhou 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 Cangzhou 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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