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Danyang City, 
China
358,677 people lived in Danyang City in 2025. It is the 1588th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 294th 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 Danyang City's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Danyang City grew
Count 10 people in Danyang City in 1990 and the same count gives 44.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 333,009 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Danyang City through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Danyang City 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 Danyang City; 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, Danyang City covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 56 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5.6 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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 Danyang City in 2025 — about 1 in 4,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1584 Daloa Côte d’Ivoire360,630
- 1585 Boa Vista Brazil360,361
- 1586 Fallujah Iraq359,695
- 1587 Grenoble France359,128
- 1588 Danyang City358,677
- 1589 Pilibhit India358,059
- 1590 Piracicaba Brazil357,844
- 1591 Korhogo Côte d’Ivoire357,761
- 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain357,753
In China, 2025
- 1575 Xingping363,206
- 1577 Linhai362,290
- 1578 Qidong362,192
- 1581 Hulan361,540
- 1588 Danyang City358,677
- 1611 Yongzhou354,335
- 1613 Lili354,151
- 1617 Haifeng353,473
- 1632 Xinyang351,064
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 Danyang City are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Danyang City 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