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Hezhou, 
China
313,994 people lived in Hezhou in 2025. It is the 1827th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 338th largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hezhou grew
Where Hezhou had 10 people in 1990, it had 52.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 276,975 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. 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
Hezhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hezhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Hezhou is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Hezhou covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5.6 times its size, and its people are 5.3 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Hezhou in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1823 Wanlaweyn Somalia314,824
- 1824 Nankang314,564
- 1825 Ningde314,107
- 1826 Tambov Russia314,026
- 1827 Hezhou313,994
- 1828 Kodarma India313,949
- 1829 Raoping313,705
- 1830 Gandhidham India313,691
- 1831 Karaganda Kazakhstan313,529
In China, 2025
- 1820 Miluo315,273
- 1821 Tongzhou315,167
- 1824 Nankang314,564
- 1825 Ningde314,107
- 1827 Hezhou313,994
- 1829 Raoping313,705
- 1835 Lufeng312,588
- 1853 Emeishan310,503
- 1858 Huairou309,856
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 Hezhou 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 Hezhou 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 →
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