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Guang'an, 
China
436,199 people lived in Guang'an in 2025. It is the 1282nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 238th 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 Guang'an grew
Where Guang'an had 10 people in 1995, it had 39.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 370,334 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: 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
Guang'an through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Guang'an 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). Guang'an 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, Guang'an covered 78 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.7 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 7 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 Guang'an in 2025 — about 1 in 3,226.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1278 Kaliningrad Russia436,555
- 1279 Cuddalore India436,495
- 1280 Chiayi Taiwan436,393
- 1281 Oron Nigeria436,247
- 1282 Guang'an436,199
- 1283 Pabna Bangladesh436,119
- 1284 Sterling Heights United States435,980
- 1285 Sambhal India435,760
- 1286 Gaozhou435,368
In China, 2025
- 1243 Zoucheng447,484
- 1249 Chengde444,971
- 1252 Chaoyang443,864
- 1265 Zhanjiang440,587
- 1282 Guang'an436,199
- 1286 Gaozhou435,368
- 1290 Shizhong433,213
- 1293 Huiminxiang432,064
- 1305 Huidong428,137
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 Guang'an 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 Guang'an 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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