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Emeishan, 
China
310,503 people lived in Emeishan in 2025. It is the 1853rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 341st 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 Emeishan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Emeishan grew
Count 10 people in Emeishan in 1985 and the same count gives 59 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 265,472 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Emeishan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Emeishan 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 Emeishan; 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, Emeishan covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.7 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 6.7 times its size, and its people are 5.9 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 Emeishan in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1849 Gorgan Iran310,644
- 1850 Aktau Kazakhstan310,607
- 1851 Campos dos Goytacazes Brazil310,590
- 1852 Sungai Petani Malaysia310,566
- 1853 Emeishan310,503
- 1854 Kanggye North Korea310,432
- 1855 Yuanlin City Taiwan310,380
- 1856 Beed India310,278
- 1857 Taubaté Brazil310,170
In China, 2025
- 1825 Ningde314,107
- 1827 Hezhou313,994
- 1829 Raoping313,705
- 1835 Lufeng312,588
- 1853 Emeishan310,503
- 1858 Huairou309,856
- 1862 Xichang309,170
- 1865 Cangnan308,925
- 1868 Tonghua308,016
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 Emeishan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Emeishan 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