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Dongsheng, 
China
518,080 people lived in Dongsheng in 2025. It is the 1069th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 194th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Dongsheng governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dongsheng grew
Count 10 people in Dongsheng in 1975 and the same count gives 49.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 521,715 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: 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
Dongsheng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dongsheng 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 Dongsheng; 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, Dongsheng covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.9 times its size, and its people are 4.9 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 Dongsheng in 2025 — about 1 in 2,703.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1065 Liaocheng519,411
- 1066 Utrecht Netherlands519,200
- 1067 Bhore India518,289
- 1068 Juiz de Fora Brazil518,218
- 1069 Dongsheng518,080
- 1070 Satna India517,402
- 1071 Bukit Mertajam Malaysia517,326
- 1072 Manono Democratic Republic of the Congo517,304
- 1073 Kerman Iran517,216
In China, 2025
- 1050 Beibei527,806
- 1051 Langfang527,161
- 1062 Liling520,239
- 1065 Liaocheng519,411
- 1069 Dongsheng518,080
- 1078 Zhuji515,549
- 1079 Chenzhou514,905
- 1083 Tongliao512,445
- 1085 Tianshui511,831
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 Dongsheng 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 Dongsheng 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