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Chenzhou, 
China
514,905 people lived in Chenzhou in 2025. It is the 1079th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 196th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Chenzhou 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 Chenzhou grew
Where Chenzhou had 10 people in 1980, it had 97.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 466,859 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Chenzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chenzhou 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 Chenzhou; 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, Chenzhou covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 5.5 times its size, and its people are 9.8 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Chenzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 2,778.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1075 Concepción Chile516,741
- 1076 Minna Nigeria516,451
- 1077 Lobito Angola516,153
- 1078 Zhuji515,549
- 1079 Chenzhou514,905
- 1080 Saurimo Angola514,728
- 1081 Zamboanga City Philippines513,813
- 1082 Gorontalo Indonesia513,078
- 1083 Tongliao512,445
In China, 2025
- 1062 Liling520,239
- 1065 Liaocheng519,411
- 1069 Dongsheng518,080
- 1078 Zhuji515,549
- 1079 Chenzhou514,905
- 1083 Tongliao512,445
- 1085 Tianshui511,831
- 1087 Jinhe510,984
- 1088 Hegang509,748
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 Chenzhou are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Chenzhou 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