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Guigang, 
China
298,077 people lived in Guigang in 2025. It is the 1935th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 355th largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Guigang's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Guigang grew
Count 10 people in Guigang in 1995 and the same count gives 26 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 279,517 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
Guigang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Guigang 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). Guigang 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, Guigang covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 51 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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 Guigang in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1930 Asahikawa Japan298,481
- 1931 Baochi298,433
- 1932 Bojonegoro Indonesia298,285
- 1934 Arlington Heights United States298,081
- 1935 Guigang298,077
- 1937 Shengzhou297,906
- 1938 Xiantao297,859
- 1939 Karur India297,598
- 1940 Siguiri Guinea297,453
In China, 2025
- 1897 Zhaotong302,089
- 1902 Changxing301,206
- 1922 Yongcheng299,180
- 1931 Baochi298,433
- 1935 Guigang298,077
- 1937 Shengzhou297,906
- 1938 Xiantao297,859
- 1949 Wenjiang296,976
- 1958 Renqiu295,917
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Guigang 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 Guigang 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