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Fangshan, 
China
633,763 people lived in Fangshan in 2025. It is the 854th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 149th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Fangshan 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 Fangshan grew
Where Fangshan had 10 people in 1975, it had 78.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 690,801 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Fangshan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Fangshan 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 Fangshan; 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, Fangshan covered 153 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 37 km² of it. That is 58 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 16 times its size, and its people are 7.8 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 Fangshan in 2025 — about 1 in 2,222.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 850 Kuningan Indonesia636,447
- 851 Long Xuyên Vietnam635,490
- 852 Liaoyang635,212
- 853 Huambo Angola634,669
- 854 Fangshan633,763
- 855 Al-Fashir Sudan633,077
- 856 Bordeaux France631,551
- 857 Yuxi631,209
- 858 Ajmer India631,176
In China, 2025
- 833 Changde651,562
- 846 Jiangyin637,502
- 849 Mianyang636,781
- 852 Liaoyang635,212
- 854 Fangshan633,763
- 857 Yuxi631,209
- 859 Qujing630,828
- 866 Pingxiang623,055
- 867 Xiashan622,080
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 Fangshan 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 Fangshan 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