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Huadu, 
China
882,089 people lived in Huadu in 2025. It is the 587th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 87th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Huadu governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Huadu grew
Count 10 people in Huadu in 1975 and the same count gives 123.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 965,456 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Huadu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Huadu 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 Huadu; 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, Huadu covered 159 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 39 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 20.6 times its size, and its people are 12.4 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Huadu, which is 882,089 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Huadu. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 583 The Hague Netherlands886,444
- 584 Nampula Mozambique885,780
- 585 Kayseri Türkiye882,238
- 586 Bikaner India882,222
- 587 Huadu882,089
- 588 Ulsan South Korea881,858
- 589 Ufa Russia880,583
- 590 Querétaro Mexico880,361
- 591 Voronezh Russia879,892
In China, 2025
- 558 Ma'anshan929,836
- 564 Xuchang916,553
- 568 Weifang908,584
- 580 Qiqihar892,744
- 587 Huadu882,089
- 596 Chenghai875,988
- 599 Hengyang873,169
- 609 Xinxiang858,975
- 612 Jinzhou854,575
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 Huadu 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 Huadu 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