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Fanling, 
Hong Kong
304,190 people lived in Fanling in 2025. It is the 1888th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Hong Kong.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Fanling 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 Fanling grew
Where Fanling had 10 people in 1975, it had 21 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 250,181 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: 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
Fanling through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Fanling in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Hong Kong · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Hong Kong and its 6 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Hong Kong). Fanling 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, Fanling covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.1 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 Hong Kong
Its share of Hong Kong
Of every 100 people in Hong Kong in 2025, 4 lived in Fanling, which is 304,190 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Hong Kong; the coloured squares live in Fanling. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1884 Gaoming China304,429
- 1885 Nukus Uzbekistan304,362
- 1886 Yarim Yemen304,301
- 1887 Barmer India304,268
- 1888 Fanling304,190
- 1889 Gao'an China304,111
- 1890 Tagum Philippines303,614
- 1891 Sers Al Layyan Egypt303,302
- 1892 Rajon Swerdlowski Russia302,890
In Hong Kong, 2025
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 Fanling 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 Fanling 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