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Huludao, 
China
495,819 people lived in Huludao in 2025. It is the 1117th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 208th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Huludao governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Huludao grew
Where Huludao had 10 people in 1980, it had 40.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 435,477 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Huludao through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Huludao 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 Huludao; 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, Huludao covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 4.1 times as many.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Huludao in 2025 — about 1 in 2,857.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1113 Khamis Mushayt Saudi Arabia497,246
- 1114 Yangjiang496,608
- 1115 Bloemfontein South Africa496,295
- 1116 Sousse Tunisia495,877
- 1117 Huludao495,819
- 1118 Osh Kyrgyzstan495,400
- 1119 Baishan495,030
- 1120 Fatehpur India494,897
- 1121 Poznan Poland494,839
In China, 2025
- 1096 Jingjiang505,098
- 1100 Anqing503,036
- 1106 Anshun499,794
- 1114 Yangjiang496,608
- 1117 Huludao495,819
- 1119 Baishan495,030
- 1125 Siping493,984
- 1129 Dezhou493,272
- 1142 Enshi485,222
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 Huludao are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Huludao 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