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Huzhou, 
China
483,361 people lived in Huzhou in 2025. It is the 1147th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 213th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Huzhou is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Huzhou grew
For every 10 people in Huzhou in 1975, there were 38.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 650,959 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Huzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Huzhou 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). Huzhou 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, Huzhou covered 82 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 1975, its built-up land has grown to 9.4 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 Huzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 2,941.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1143 Haifa Israel484,770
- 1144 Cooch Behar India484,313
- 1145 Kagoshima Japan484,164
- 1146 Dire Dawa Ethiopia483,674
- 1147 Huzhou483,361
- 1148 Yar Hussain Pakistan483,239
- 1149 Cuenca Ecuador482,272
- 1150 Tahta Egypt482,194
- 1151 At Ta'if Saudi Arabia481,818
In China, 2025
- 1119 Baishan495,030
- 1125 Siping493,984
- 1129 Dezhou493,272
- 1142 Enshi485,222
- 1147 Huzhou483,361
- 1153 Rizhao481,315
- 1155 Huai'an District480,263
- 1157 Gaomi479,056
- 1158 Yulin478,875
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 Huzhou 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 Huzhou 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