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Changping, 
China
386,664 people lived in Changping in 2025. It is the 1472nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 271st largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Changping 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 Changping grew
For every 10 people in Changping in 1975, there were 58.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 430,736 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Changping through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Changping 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). Changping 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, Changping covered 55 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.6 times its size, and its people are 5.9 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 Changping in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1468 Ulyanovsk Russia387,698
- 1469 Al Roda Egypt387,432
- 1470 Ganja Azerbaijan386,822
- 1471 Malemba-Nkulu Democratic Republic of the Congo386,790
- 1472 Changping386,664
- 1473 Bournemouth United Kingdom386,557
- 1474 Antofagasta Chile385,812
- 1475 Pittsburgh United States385,498
- 1476 Yongkang385,247
In China, 2025
- 1444 Ezhou393,658
- 1449 Jiyuan392,568
- 1454 Zheba390,709
- 1458 Wenling390,282
- 1472 Changping386,664
- 1476 Yongkang385,247
- 1477 Fuqing385,081
- 1480 Haicheng383,983
- 1482 Tongling383,739
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 Changping 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 Changping 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