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Hsinchu, 
Taiwan
695,677 people lived in Hsinchu in 2025. It is the 773rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Taiwan.
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 Hsinchu grew
Count 10 people in Hsinchu in 1975 and the same count gives 22.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 611,590 people in 2050.
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
Hsinchu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hsinchu in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Taiwan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Taiwan and its 21 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Taipei). Hsinchu is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Hsinchu covered 147 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 33 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Taiwan
Its share of Taiwan
Of every 100 people in Taiwan in 2025, 3 lived in Hsinchu, which is 695,677 people.
How to read this: shrink Taiwan to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Hsinchu; 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
- 769 Seville Spain699,504
- 770 Krakow Poland699,015
- 771 Urmia Iran698,050
- 772 Donghe China696,169
- 773 Hsinchu695,677
- 774 Shahjahanpur India694,580
- 775 Kebkabiya Sudan694,415
- 776 Dazhou China693,707
- 777 Rahim Yar Khan Pakistan693,373
In Taiwan, 2025
- 39 Taipei9,136,792
- 220 Taichung2,268,685
- 231 Kaohsiung2,187,455
- 526 Tainan979,987
- 773 Hsinchu695,677
- 1206 Zhanghua City461,552
- 1280 Chiayi436,393
- 1855 Yuanlin City310,380
- 3451 Pingtung City175,377
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Hsinchu 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 Hsinchu 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