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Hulan, 
China
361,540 people lived in Hulan in 2025. It is the 1581st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 293rd largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Hulan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hulan grew
Where Hulan had 10 people in 1975, it had 51.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 339,365 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Hulan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hulan 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 Hulan; 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, Hulan covered 77 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 46 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.7 times its size, and its people are 5.1 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 Hulan in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1577 Linhai362,290
- 1578 Qidong362,192
- 1579 London Canada362,006
- 1580 San Cristobal Venezuela361,969
- 1581 Hulan361,540
- 1582 Vitsebsk Belarus361,484
- 1583 Dilla Ethiopia360,925
- 1584 Daloa Côte d’Ivoire360,630
- 1585 Boa Vista Brazil360,361
In China, 2025
- 1574 Liyang363,285
- 1575 Xingping363,206
- 1577 Linhai362,290
- 1578 Qidong362,192
- 1581 Hulan361,540
- 1588 Danyang City358,677
- 1611 Yongzhou354,335
- 1613 Lili354,151
- 1617 Haifeng353,473
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 Hulan 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 Hulan 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