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Chaozhou, 
China
6,407,770 people lived in Chaozhou in 2025. It is the 61st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Chaozhou's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Chaozhou grew
For every 10 people in Chaozhou in 1975, there were 118.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 6.8 million people in 2050. It passed five million people between 2005 and 2010.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Chaozhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chaozhou 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). Chaozhou 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, Chaozhou covered 1,223 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 238 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 11.8 times its size, and its people are 11.9 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 5 lived in Chaozhou, which is 6.4 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Chaozhou. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 57 Nanjing6,800,676
- 58 Santiago Chile6,726,045
- 59 Addis Ababa Ethiopia6,705,705
- 60 Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire6,621,711
- 61 Chaozhou6,407,770
- 62 Amman Jordan6,403,666
- 63 Baghdad Iraq6,390,735
- 64 Chengdu6,139,874
- 65 Nairobi Kenya6,134,334
In China, 2025
- 46 Wuhan7,363,548
- 47 Tianjin7,285,342
- 51 Chongqing7,071,073
- 57 Nanjing6,800,676
- 61 Chaozhou6,407,770
- 64 Chengdu6,139,874
- 67 Shenyang5,702,638
- 77 Xi'an5,231,053
- 86 Zhengzhou4,878,035
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Chaozhou 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 Chaozhou 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