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Huaibei, 
China
596,613 people lived in Huaibei in 2025. It is the 914th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 165th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Huaibei 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 Huaibei grew
For every 10 people in Huaibei in 1975, there were 35.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 465,790 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Huaibei through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Huaibei in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Huaibei 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, Huaibei covered 103 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 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 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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 Huaibei in 2025 — about 1 in 2,381.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 910 Londrina Brazil598,731
- 911 Ado Ekiti Nigeria598,230
- 912 Kingston Jamaica598,012
- 913 Jiujiang597,681
- 914 Huaibei596,613
- 915 Huiyang596,451
- 916 Ogale Nigeria595,099
- 917 Katsina Nigeria594,775
- 918 Samsun Türkiye594,089
In China, 2025
- 907 Leshan600,101
- 908 Maoming599,504
- 909 Chifeng599,299
- 913 Jiujiang597,681
- 914 Huaibei596,613
- 915 Huiyang596,451
- 921 Yongchuan590,694
- 925 Weihai589,850
- 935 Loudi585,521
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 Huaibei 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 Huaibei 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