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Guangyuan, 
China
381,738 people lived in Guangyuan in 2025. It is the 1488th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 276th 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 Guangyuan grew
Where Guangyuan had 10 people in 1975, it had 66 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 340,027 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Guangyuan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Guangyuan 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 Guangyuan; 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, Guangyuan covered 53 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.2 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.3 times its size, and its people are 6.6 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Guangyuan in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1484 Villavicencio Colombia383,028
- 1485 Rewa India383,019
- 1486 Badaun India382,686
- 1487 Pohang-si South Korea382,368
- 1488 Guangyuan381,738
- 1489 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain381,670
- 1490 Changji/Sanji381,391
- 1491 Kas Sudan381,286
- 1492 Bandar Abbas Iran381,008
In China, 2025
- 1476 Yongkang385,247
- 1477 Fuqing385,081
- 1480 Haicheng383,983
- 1482 Tongling383,739
- 1488 Guangyuan381,738
- 1490 Changji/Sanji381,391
- 1494 Dongyang380,793
- 1499 Laiwu379,135
- 1511 Xinghua375,876
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 Guangyuan 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 Guangyuan 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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