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Hohhot, 
China
1,993,292 people lived in Hohhot in 2025. It is the 248th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 40th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Hohhot 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 Hohhot grew
Where Hohhot had 10 people in 1975, it had 24.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.9 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Hohhot through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hohhot in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Hohhot 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, Hohhot covered 226 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 72 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Hohhot, which is 2.0 million people.
How to read this: shrink China to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Hohhot; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 244 La Paz Bolivia2,024,413
- 245 Dhanbad India2,020,181
- 246 Mehsi India2,018,610
- 247 Nashik India1,996,763
- 248 Hohhot1,993,292
- 249 Santa Cruz de la Sierra Bolivia1,980,432
- 250 Baku Azerbaijan1,977,897
- 251 Phoenix United States1,972,021
- 252 Sapporo Japan1,964,519
In China, 2025
- 193 Wuxi2,613,100
- 215 Tangshan2,286,763
- 218 Lanzhou2,272,104
- 234 Cixi2,177,489
- 248 Hohhot1,993,292
- 269 Putian1,871,858
- 277 Yinchuan1,792,788
- 278 Xiamen City1,788,492
- 279 Handan1,777,172
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 Hohhot 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 Hohhot 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