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Changde, 
China
651,562 people lived in Changde in 2025. It is the 833rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 145th 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 Changde grew
Count 10 people in Changde in 1975 and the same count gives 15.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 568,890 people in 2050.
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
Changde through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Changde in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Changde 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, Changde covered 106 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 53%.
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 Changde in 2025 — about 1 in 2,174.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 829 Volgograd Russia655,020
- 830 Tamale Ghana654,868
- 831 Zucheng654,599
- 832 Antwerp Belgium652,506
- 833 Changde651,562
- 834 Mazar i sharif Afghanistan651,287
- 835 Nottingham United Kingdom649,610
- 836 Amarah Iraq645,612
- 837 Nuremberg Germany644,169
In China, 2025
- 808 Jiamusi673,406
- 815 Fushun665,286
- 819 Leiyang662,696
- 831 Zucheng654,599
- 833 Changde651,562
- 846 Jiangyin637,502
- 849 Mianyang636,781
- 852 Liaoyang635,212
- 854 Fangshan633,763
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 Changde 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 Changde 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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