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Changzhi, 
China
602,771 people lived in Changzhi in 2025. It is the 903rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 160th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Changzhi 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 Changzhi grew
Where Changzhi had 10 people in 1975, it had 20.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 543,446 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
Changzhi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Changzhi 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). Changzhi 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, Changzhi covered 106 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 Changzhi in 2025 — about 1 in 2,326.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 899 Anqiu605,324
- 900 Ottawa Canada605,121
- 901 Tampico Mexico603,035
- 902 Pereira Colombia602,831
- 903 Changzhi602,771
- 904 Tyumen Russia602,535
- 905 Khan Yunis Palestine601,421
- 906 Jangalpara India600,501
- 907 Leshan600,101
In China, 2025
- 889 Xingning609,923
- 894 Zhaoqing607,624
- 896 Zhangjiakou606,124
- 899 Anqiu605,324
- 903 Changzhi602,771
- 907 Leshan600,101
- 908 Maoming599,504
- 909 Chifeng599,299
- 913 Jiujiang597,681
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 Changzhi 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 Changzhi 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