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Gaomi, 
China
479,056 people lived in Gaomi in 2025. It is the 1157th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 216th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Gaomi 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 Gaomi grew
Where Gaomi had 10 people in 1980, it had 77.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 409,785 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Gaomi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gaomi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Gaomi 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, Gaomi covered 122 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 33 km² of it. That is 68 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 6.8 times its size, and its people are 7.8 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 Gaomi in 2025 — about 1 in 2,941.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1153 Rizhao481,315
- 1154 Siuri India480,595
- 1155 Huai'an District480,263
- 1156 Kediri Indonesia480,038
- 1157 Gaomi479,056
- 1158 Yulin478,875
- 1159 Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago478,107
- 1160 Jombang Indonesia478,051
- 1161 Kryvyi Rih Ukraine477,940
In China, 2025
- 1142 Enshi485,222
- 1147 Huzhou483,361
- 1153 Rizhao481,315
- 1155 Huai'an District480,263
- 1157 Gaomi479,056
- 1158 Yulin478,875
- 1164 Zigong477,271
- 1169 Jinzhong473,959
- 1178 Chuxiong471,251
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Gaomi are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Gaomi 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