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Hegang, 
China
509,748 people lived in Hegang in 2025. It is the 1088th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 200th 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 Hegang's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hegang grew
Where Hegang had 10 people in 1975, it had 8.4 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 455,852 people in 2050.
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
Hegang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hegang 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 Hegang; 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, Hegang covered 96 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 42%, and its people have fallen by 16%.
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 Hegang in 2025 — about 1 in 2,778.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1084 Mau India512,415
- 1085 Tianshui511,831
- 1086 Roorkee India511,291
- 1087 Jinhe510,984
- 1088 Hegang509,748
- 1089 Wrocław Poland508,528
- 1090 Fuxin508,131
- 1091 Shunyi507,591
- 1092 Malatya Türkiye506,854
In China, 2025
- 1079 Chenzhou514,905
- 1083 Tongliao512,445
- 1085 Tianshui511,831
- 1087 Jinhe510,984
- 1088 Hegang509,748
- 1090 Fuxin508,131
- 1091 Shunyi507,591
- 1093 Kashgar506,476
- 1096 Jingjiang505,098
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 Hegang 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 Hegang 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