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Jiaxing, 
China
751,156 people lived in Jiaxing in 2025. It is the 714th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 116th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Jiaxing is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jiaxing grew
For every 10 people in Jiaxing in 1975, there were 44.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 939,461 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Jiaxing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jiaxing in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Jiaxing is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Jiaxing covered 145 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 36 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 12.2 times its size, and its people are 4.4 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Jiaxing, which is 751,156 people.
How to read this: shrink China to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Jiaxing; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 710 Malabo Equatorial Guinea754,834
- 711 Xingtai754,483
- 712 Kalaburagi India753,963
- 713 Puyang753,625
- 714 Jiaxing751,156
- 715 Mersin Türkiye750,396
- 716 Thessaloniki Greece749,840
- 717 Dortmund Germany748,106
- 718 Yichun745,754
In China, 2025
- 702 Mudanjiang758,800
- 707 Xinyu756,365
- 711 Xingtai754,483
- 713 Puyang753,625
- 714 Jiaxing751,156
- 718 Yichun745,754
- 725 Dandong738,721
- 730 Benxi734,933
- 734 Lu'an729,998
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 Jiaxing 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 Jiaxing 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