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Chuzhou, 
China
321,424 people lived in Chuzhou in 2025. It is the 1790th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 329th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Chuzhou is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Chuzhou grew
Where Chuzhou had 10 people in 1975, it had 27.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 294,356 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Chuzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chuzhou 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). Chuzhou 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, Chuzhou covered 56 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 2.7 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Chuzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1786 Shariatpur Bangladesh321,804
- 1787 Timofeevka Russia321,680
- 1788 Katni India321,522
- 1789 Bafoussam Cameroon321,489
- 1790 Chuzhou321,424
- 1791 Ilebo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,392
- 1792 Quảng Ngãi Vietnam320,907
- 1793 Famenin Iran320,591
- 1794 Trabzon Türkiye320,468
In China, 2025
- 1765 Jiaonan325,383
- 1768 Kaiping324,576
- 1773 Lieshan323,702
- 1775 Huangshan323,492
- 1790 Chuzhou321,424
- 1796 Aksu320,179
- 1803 Zhangqiu319,153
- 1805 Qili318,490
- 1815 Guiping315,905
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 Chuzhou 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 Chuzhou 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