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Fengrun, 
China
538,206 people lived in Fengrun in 2025. It is the 1028th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 186th 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 Fengrun'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 Fengrun grew
Count 10 people in Fengrun in 1975 and the same count gives 43 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 608,538 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: 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
Fengrun through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Fengrun 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). Fengrun 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, Fengrun covered 88 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 4.3 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 Fengrun in 2025 — about 1 in 2,632.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1024 Tirupati India539,275
- 1025 Mbeya Tanzania539,248
- 1026 Kupang Indonesia538,998
- 1027 Shaoyang538,432
- 1028 Fengrun538,206
- 1029 Xianyang537,601
- 1030 Buram Sudan537,169
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos Brazil536,073
- 1032 Bettiah India535,979
In China, 2025
- 1009 Wanzhou544,748
- 1012 Huazhou543,709
- 1020 Chengtougu541,451
- 1027 Shaoyang538,432
- 1028 Fengrun538,206
- 1029 Xianyang537,601
- 1035 Bengbu535,096
- 1044 Bozhou531,429
- 1050 Beibei527,806
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 Fengrun 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 Fengrun 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