Topics
Huangdao District, 
China
545,983 people lived in Huangdao District in 2025. It is the 1007th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 181st 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Huangdao District grew
Where Huangdao District had 10 people in 1975, it had 17.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 503,298 people in 2050.
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
Huangdao District through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Huangdao District 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). Huangdao District 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, Huangdao District covered 103 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 18.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 79%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Huangdao District in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1003 Kikwit Democratic Republic of the Congo549,102
- 1004 Port Louis Mauritius549,015
- 1005 Arrah India547,584
- 1006 Meishan546,811
- 1007 Huangdao District545,983
- 1008 Silchar India544,936
- 1009 Wanzhou544,748
- 1010 Cilacap Indonesia544,657
- 1011 Hisar India543,775
In China, 2025
- 988 Yitang555,576
- 995 Panjin551,709
- 997 Luhe551,106
- 1006 Meishan546,811
- 1007 Huangdao District545,983
- 1009 Wanzhou544,748
- 1012 Huazhou543,709
- 1020 Chengtougu541,451
- 1027 Shaoyang538,432
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Huangdao District 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 Huangdao District 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