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Daqing, 
China
405,480 people lived in Daqing in 2025. It is the 1394th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 259th 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 Daqing's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Daqing grew
Where Daqing had 10 people in 1975, it had 48 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 381,835 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Daqing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Daqing in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Daqing is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Daqing covered 81 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 11.2 times its size, and its people are 4.8 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 Daqing in 2025 — about 1 in 3,448.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1390 Bhind India406,712
- 1391 Resistencia Argentina406,337
- 1392 Abakaliki Nigeria406,105
- 1393 Kumbakonam India405,885
- 1394 Daqing405,480
- 1395 Jiashan405,454
- 1396 Hebron Palestine405,079
- 1397 North Richland Hills United States404,680
- 1398 Sariwon North Korea404,672
In China, 2025
- 1370 Tashikeruike411,163
- 1376 Huangyan District410,213
- 1380 Dongtai409,015
- 1386 Zhaodong407,507
- 1394 Daqing405,480
- 1395 Jiashan405,454
- 1418 Wuzhou398,593
- 1422 Sanya398,270
- 1423 Pingliang398,221
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 Daqing 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 Daqing 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 →
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