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Chaoyang, 
China
443,864 people lived in Chaoyang in 2025. It is the 1252nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 236th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Chaoyang 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 Chaoyang grew
Count 10 people in Chaoyang in 1975 and the same count gives 25.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 388,959 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Chaoyang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chaoyang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,082 cities in China in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Shanghai. The ringed dot in colour is Chaoyang; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Chaoyang covered 57 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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 Chaoyang in 2025 — about 1 in 3,226.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1248 Ogbomosho Nigeria445,090
- 1249 Chengde444,971
- 1250 Hawassa Ethiopia444,909
- 1251 Tangail Bangladesh444,219
- 1252 Chaoyang443,864
- 1253 Bologna Italy443,849
- 1254 Abéché Chad443,793
- 1255 Thanjavur India443,736
- 1256 Irkutsk Russia442,807
In China, 2025
- 1232 Jiangyang452,500
- 1238 Heyuan449,860
- 1243 Zoucheng447,484
- 1249 Chengde444,971
- 1252 Chaoyang443,864
- 1265 Zhanjiang440,587
- 1282 Guang'an436,199
- 1286 Gaozhou435,368
- 1290 Shizhong433,213
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 Chaoyang 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 Chaoyang 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