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Gulin, 
China
718,364 people lived in Gulin in 2025. It is the 745th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 124th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Gulin 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 Gulin grew
For every 10 people in Gulin in 1975, there were 40.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 783,680 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: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Gulin through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gulin 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 Gulin; 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, Gulin covered 170 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 times its size, and its people are 4.1 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Gulin, which is 718,364 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Gulin. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 741 Kamina Democratic Republic of the Congo724,982
- 742 Bouaké Côte d’Ivoire724,691
- 743 Meknes Morocco722,852
- 744 Yingxia719,432
- 745 Gulin718,364
- 746 Patiala India718,308
- 747 Linchuan718,050
- 748 Haridwar India717,990
- 749 Makhachkala Russia717,618
In China, 2025
- 734 Lu'an729,998
- 737 Zhumadian727,923
- 739 Suqian725,070
- 744 Yingxia719,432
- 745 Gulin718,364
- 747 Linchuan718,050
- 755 Xiaogan711,726
- 759 Jiaozuo704,917
- 761 Yiyang703,724
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 Gulin 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 Gulin 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