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Dongying, 
China
343,003 people lived in Dongying in 2025. It is the 1666th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 301st 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 Dongying'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 Dongying grew
Where Dongying had 10 people in 1975, it had 67.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 313,005 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
Dongying through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dongying 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). Dongying 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, Dongying covered 66 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 62 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 6.7 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 Dongying in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1662 Augsburg Germany344,255
- 1663 Kansas City United States344,125
- 1664 Etah India344,002
- 1665 Banda Aceh Indonesia343,382
- 1666 Dongying343,003
- 1667 Kaili342,989
- 1668 Edendale South Africa342,930
- 1669 Tiruvannamalai India342,795
- 1670 Yanshi District342,565
In China, 2025
- 1617 Haifeng353,473
- 1632 Xinyang351,064
- 1642 Gaoyou348,058
- 1661 Guankou344,468
- 1666 Dongying343,003
- 1667 Kaili342,989
- 1670 Yanshi District342,565
- 1671 Dujiangyan342,467
- 1673 Qingzhou342,044
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 Dongying 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 Dongying 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