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Dazhou, 
China
693,707 people lived in Dazhou in 2025. It is the 776th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 133rd 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 Dazhou's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dazhou grew
Where Dazhou had 10 people in 1975, it had 23.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 582,169 people in 2050.
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
Dazhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dazhou 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). Dazhou 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, Dazhou covered 57 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.8 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 Dazhou in 2025 — about 1 in 2,041.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 772 Donghe696,169
- 773 Hsinchu Taiwan695,677
- 774 Shahjahanpur India694,580
- 775 Kebkabiya Sudan694,415
- 776 Dazhou693,707
- 777 Rahim Yar Khan Pakistan693,373
- 778 Panvel India692,036
- 779 Chŏngjin North Korea690,409
- 780 Cheongju-si South Korea690,333
In China, 2025
- 762 Tai'an703,020
- 763 Qingyuan702,881
- 767 Deyang700,386
- 772 Donghe696,169
- 776 Dazhou693,707
- 784 Zhoukou689,599
- 791 Longgang681,306
- 794 Youyi680,993
- 799 Jingzhou678,632
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 Dazhou 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 Dazhou 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