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Fuzhou, 
China
2,910,985 people lived in Fuzhou in 2025. It is the 171st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 32nd largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Fuzhou is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Fuzhou grew
Where Fuzhou had 10 people in 1975, it had 31.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.7 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Fuzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Fuzhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Fuzhou is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Fuzhou covered 255 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 58 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 2 lived in Fuzhou, which is 2.9 million people.
How to read this: shrink China to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Fuzhou; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 167 Asansol India2,924,741
- 168 Aleppo Syria2,922,277
- 169 Brahmanbaria Bangladesh2,914,727
- 170 Miami United States2,912,486
- 171 Fuzhou2,910,985
- 172 Pyongyang North Korea2,901,588
- 173 Tamluk India2,894,484
- 174 Hyderabad Pakistan2,863,633
- 175 Guatemala City Guatemala2,837,708
In China, 2025
- 144 Quanzhou3,286,129
- 151 Kunming3,228,117
- 161 Ningbo3,094,833
- 164 Shijiazhuang2,990,397
- 171 Fuzhou2,910,985
- 178 Dalian2,796,248
- 185 Guiyang2,686,949
- 189 Changzhou2,649,836
- 193 Wuxi2,613,100
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 Fuzhou 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 Fuzhou 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