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Changge, 
China
468,159 people lived in Changge in 2025. It is the 1187th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 222nd largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Changge governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Changge grew
Count 10 people in Changge in 1995 and the same count gives 85.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 398,161 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Changge through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Changge 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). Changge 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, Changge covered 130 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 7.4 times its size, and its people are 8.6 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Changge in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1183 Sitapur India469,750
- 1184 Lüliang469,647
- 1185 Tétouan Morocco469,642
- 1186 Kurnool India468,997
- 1187 Changge468,159
- 1188 Brighton United Kingdom467,937
- 1189 Beilun District467,912
- 1190 Yangquan467,148
- 1191 Ryazan Russia466,086
In China, 2025
- 1164 Zigong477,271
- 1169 Jinzhong473,959
- 1178 Chuxiong471,251
- 1184 Lüliang469,647
- 1187 Changge468,159
- 1189 Beilun District467,912
- 1190 Yangquan467,148
- 1194 Tongxiang465,450
- 1197 Shanwei464,738
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 Changge are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Changge 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