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Hanchuan, 
China
426,922 people lived in Hanchuan in 2025. It is the 1311th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 243rd 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 Hanchuan'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 Hanchuan grew
For every 10 people in Hanchuan in 1990, there were 77.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 325,228 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Hanchuan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hanchuan 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 Hanchuan; 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, Hanchuan covered 85 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 6 times its size, and its people are 7.7 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 Hanchuan in 2025 — about 1 in 3,333.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1307 Khansahib India428,041
- 1308 Coventry United Kingdom427,678
- 1309 Wiesbaden Germany427,270
- 1310 Burao Somalia427,013
- 1311 Hanchuan426,922
- 1312 Orenburg Russia426,263
- 1313 Gresik Indonesia426,246
- 1314 Longquanyi426,144
- 1315 Dere Nigeria425,674
In China, 2025
- 1286 Gaozhou435,368
- 1290 Shizhong433,213
- 1293 Huiminxiang432,064
- 1305 Huidong428,137
- 1311 Hanchuan426,922
- 1314 Longquanyi426,144
- 1317 Ranghulu424,460
- 1318 Ziyang424,328
- 1321 Jingdezhen423,386
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 Hanchuan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Hanchuan 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