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Jiaozhou, 
China
457,288 people lived in Jiaozhou in 2025. It is the 1216th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 231st 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 Jiaozhou grew
For every 10 people in Jiaozhou in 1975, there were 81.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 410,152 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
Jiaozhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jiaozhou 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 Jiaozhou; 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, Jiaozhou covered 136 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 38 km² of it. That is 84 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 10.9 times its size, and its people are 8.2 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 Jiaozhou in 2025 — about 1 in 3,125.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1212 Atlanta United States458,225
- 1213 Jhelum Pakistan457,793
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya Egypt457,678
- 1215 Barishal Bangladesh457,323
- 1216 Jiaozhou457,288
- 1217 Batman Türkiye456,902
- 1218 Saharsa India456,879
- 1219 Irapuato Mexico456,628
- 1220 Cheboksary Russia456,304
In China, 2025
- 1199 Meizhou464,343
- 1200 Bijie463,837
- 1203 Yuhu462,605
- 1204 Yanji461,800
- 1216 Jiaozhou457,288
- 1232 Jiangyang452,500
- 1238 Heyuan449,860
- 1243 Zoucheng447,484
- 1249 Chengde444,971
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 Jiaozhou 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 Jiaozhou 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