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Heze, 
China
397,886 people lived in Heze in 2025. It is the 1429th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 264th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Heze 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 Heze grew
For every 10 people in Heze in 1985, there were 73.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 346,073 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Heze through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Heze 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 Heze; 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, Heze covered 94 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 72 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 7.4 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Heze in 2025 — about 1 in 3,571.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1425 Volta Redonda Brazil398,107
- 1426 Bergamo Italy398,050
- 1427 Potiskum Nigeria397,981
- 1428 Alicante Spain397,948
- 1429 Heze397,886
- 1430 Madiun Indonesia397,871
- 1431 Mit Habib Egypt397,104
- 1432 Dinajpur Bangladesh396,235
- 1433 Parakou Benin395,528
In China, 2025
- 1395 Jiashan405,454
- 1418 Wuzhou398,593
- 1422 Sanya398,270
- 1423 Pingliang398,221
- 1429 Heze397,886
- 1434 Xinxing395,115
- 1440 Danzhou City394,343
- 1444 Ezhou393,658
- 1449 Jiyuan392,568
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 Heze are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Heze 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