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Jilin City, 
China
1,448,955 people lived in Jilin City in 2025. It is the 349th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 54th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Jilin City 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 Jilin City grew
For every 10 people in Jilin City in 1975, there were 12.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million 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
Jilin City through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jilin City in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Jilin City 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, Jilin City covered 96 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 44%, and its people have grown by 27%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Jilin City, which is 1.4 million 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 Jilin City; 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
- 345 Raipur India1,478,688
- 346 Cordoba Argentina1,460,491
- 347 Xiuying District1,458,377
- 348 Mombasa Kenya1,456,207
- 349 Jilin City1,448,955
- 350 Angeles Philippines1,445,721
- 351 Gwangju South Korea1,441,495
- 352 Dushanbe Tajikistan1,440,787
- 353 Valencia Venezuela1,435,894
In China, 2025
- 340 Baotou1,491,964
- 341 Anyang1,489,112
- 343 Taizhou1,483,994
- 347 Xiuying District1,458,377
- 349 Jilin City1,448,955
- 360 Xuzhou1,402,001
- 362 Liuzhou1,400,880
- 372 Xining1,360,245
- 375 Huaiyin District1,349,827
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 Jilin City 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 Jilin City 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