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Chuxiong, 
China
471,251 people lived in Chuxiong in 2025. It is the 1178th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 220th largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Chuxiong grew
For every 10 people in Chuxiong in 1980, there were 76 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 453,375 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. 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: 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
Chuxiong through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chuxiong 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 Chuxiong; 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, Chuxiong covered 64 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 7.2 times its size, and its people are 7.6 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 Chuxiong in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1174 La Serena Chile473,325
- 1175 Raebareli India472,091
- 1176 Macapá Brazil471,922
- 1177 Piura Peru471,521
- 1178 Chuxiong471,251
- 1179 Huancayo Peru470,685
- 1180 Kemerovo Russia470,175
- 1181 Faqous Egypt470,110
- 1182 Cox's Bazar Bangladesh470,100
In China, 2025
- 1157 Gaomi479,056
- 1158 Yulin478,875
- 1164 Zigong477,271
- 1169 Jinzhong473,959
- 1178 Chuxiong471,251
- 1184 Lüliang469,647
- 1187 Changge468,159
- 1189 Beilun District467,912
- 1190 Yangquan467,148
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 Chuxiong 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 Chuxiong 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