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Jiaozuo, 
China
704,917 people lived in Jiaozuo in 2025. It is the 759th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 127th 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jiaozuo grew
For every 10 people in Jiaozuo in 1975, there were 22 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 640,384 people in 2050.
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
Jiaozuo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jiaozuo 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). Jiaozuo 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, Jiaozuo covered 125 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 35 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Jiaozuo, which is 704,917 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in China, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Jiaozuo's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 755 Xiaogan711,726
- 756 Mirzapur India710,567
- 757 Panipat India710,363
- 758 Donetsk Ukraine705,832
- 759 Jiaozuo704,917
- 760 Rasoi India703,790
- 761 Yiyang703,724
- 762 Tai'an703,020
- 763 Qingyuan702,881
In China, 2025
- 744 Yingxia719,432
- 745 Gulin718,364
- 747 Linchuan718,050
- 755 Xiaogan711,726
- 759 Jiaozuo704,917
- 761 Yiyang703,724
- 762 Tai'an703,020
- 763 Qingyuan702,881
- 767 Deyang700,386
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 Jiaozuo 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 Jiaozuo 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