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Fuqing, 
China
385,081 people lived in Fuqing in 2025. It is the 1477th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 273rd largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Fuqing grew
Where Fuqing had 10 people in 1995, it had 22.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 352,355 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Fuqing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Fuqing 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 Fuqing; 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, Fuqing covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Fuqing in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1473 Bournemouth United Kingdom386,557
- 1474 Antofagasta Chile385,812
- 1475 Pittsburgh United States385,498
- 1476 Yongkang385,247
- 1477 Fuqing385,081
- 1478 Gdansk Poland384,985
- 1479 Muzaffargarh Pakistan384,838
- 1480 Haicheng383,983
- 1481 Caxias do Sul Brazil383,774
In China, 2025
- 1454 Zheba390,709
- 1458 Wenling390,282
- 1472 Changping386,664
- 1476 Yongkang385,247
- 1477 Fuqing385,081
- 1480 Haicheng383,983
- 1482 Tongling383,739
- 1488 Guangyuan381,738
- 1490 Changji/Sanji381,391
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 Fuqing are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Fuqing 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 →
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