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Ezhou, 
China
393,658 people lived in Ezhou in 2025. It is the 1444th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 267th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ezhou governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ezhou grew
For every 10 people in Ezhou in 1985, there were 56.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 330,023 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. 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: 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
Ezhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ezhou 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). Ezhou 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, Ezhou covered 56 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 5.7 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 Ezhou in 2025 — about 1 in 3,571.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1440 Danzhou City394,343
- 1441 Mahesana India394,304
- 1442 Bamenda Cameroon394,155
- 1443 As Samawah Iraq393,865
- 1444 Ezhou393,658
- 1445 Morena India393,553
- 1446 Kadapa India393,513
- 1447 Santiago del Estero Argentina393,257
- 1448 Gonder Ethiopia392,767
In China, 2025
- 1423 Pingliang398,221
- 1429 Heze397,886
- 1434 Xinxing395,115
- 1440 Danzhou City394,343
- 1444 Ezhou393,658
- 1449 Jiyuan392,568
- 1454 Zheba390,709
- 1458 Wenling390,282
- 1472 Changping386,664
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ezhou 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 Ezhou 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