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Jincheng, 
China
794,234 people lived in Jincheng in 2025. It is the 667th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 100th 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 Jincheng grew
Where Jincheng had 10 people in 1980, it had 111.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 663,401 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Jincheng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jincheng 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). Jincheng 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, Jincheng covered 93 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 11.1 times as many.
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 Jincheng, which is 794,234 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Jincheng. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 663 Cuiabá Brazil798,772
- 664 Qinhuangdao797,748
- 665 Arusha Tanzania795,744
- 666 Chelyabinsk Russia794,411
- 667 Jincheng794,234
- 668 Oyo Nigeria793,241
- 669 Irbid Jordan792,470
- 670 Dnipro Ukraine792,115
- 671 Fergana Uzbekistan791,877
In China, 2025
- 639 Huangshi821,445
- 652 Quzhou811,735
- 657 Jining803,706
- 664 Qinhuangdao797,748
- 667 Jincheng794,234
- 673 Yingkou786,031
- 674 Suzhou785,949
- 677 Yingkou782,210
- 678 Nanyang782,146
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 Jincheng are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Jincheng 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