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Chifeng, 
China
599,299 people lived in Chifeng in 2025. It is the 909th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 163rd largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Chifeng 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 Chifeng grew
For every 10 people in Chifeng in 1975, there were 20.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 548,611 people in 2050.
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
Chifeng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chifeng 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 Chifeng; 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, Chifeng covered 112 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 km² of it. That is 57 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 2 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 Chifeng in 2025 — about 1 in 2,381.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 905 Khan Yunis Palestine601,421
- 906 Jangalpara India600,501
- 907 Leshan600,101
- 908 Maoming599,504
- 909 Chifeng599,299
- 910 Londrina Brazil598,731
- 911 Ado Ekiti Nigeria598,230
- 912 Kingston Jamaica598,012
- 913 Jiujiang597,681
In China, 2025
- 899 Anqiu605,324
- 903 Changzhi602,771
- 907 Leshan600,101
- 908 Maoming599,504
- 909 Chifeng599,299
- 913 Jiujiang597,681
- 914 Huaibei596,613
- 915 Huiyang596,451
- 921 Yongchuan590,694
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 Chifeng 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 Chifeng 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