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Huangshi, 
China
821,445 people lived in Huangshi in 2025. It is the 639th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 96th 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Huangshi grew
Where Huangshi had 10 people in 1975, it had 15.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 621,152 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
Huangshi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Huangshi 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 Huangshi; 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, Huangshi covered 165 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 52%.
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 China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Huangshi, which is 821,445 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 Huangshi; 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
- 635 Ibb Yemen826,974
- 636 Imphal India824,757
- 637 Baoji823,847
- 638 Ipoh Malaysia823,097
- 639 Huangshi821,445
- 640 Vellore India820,103
- 641 Kolhapur India819,671
- 642 Porto-Novo Benin818,617
- 643 Okayama Japan817,266
In China, 2025
- 614 Haizhou District850,645
- 626 Fuyang839,236
- 630 Tengzhou834,697
- 637 Baoji823,847
- 639 Huangshi821,445
- 652 Quzhou811,735
- 657 Jining803,706
- 664 Qinhuangdao797,748
- 667 Jincheng794,234
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 Huangshi 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 Huangshi 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 →
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