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Guiping, 
China
315,905 people lived in Guiping in 2025. It is the 1815th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 333rd largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Guiping governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Guiping grew
Where Guiping had 10 people in 1995, it had 46.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 293,753 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. 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
Guiping through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Guiping 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). Guiping 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, Guiping covered 38 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.2 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 4.6 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 Guiping in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1811 Bhusawal India317,085
- 1812 Hazaribagh India316,861
- 1813 Surendranagar India316,206
- 1814 Buôn Ma Thuột Vietnam316,052
- 1815 Guiping315,905
- 1816 Iquique Chile315,904
- 1817 Udupi India315,743
- 1818 Sapele Nigeria315,614
- 1819 Pathankot India315,476
In China, 2025
- 1790 Chuzhou321,424
- 1796 Aksu320,179
- 1803 Zhangqiu319,153
- 1805 Qili318,490
- 1815 Guiping315,905
- 1820 Miluo315,273
- 1821 Tongzhou315,167
- 1824 Nankang314,564
- 1825 Ningde314,107
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 Guiping 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 Guiping 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