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Jingjiang, 
China
505,098 people lived in Jingjiang in 2025. It is the 1096th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 204th 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 Jingjiang grew
For every 10 people in Jingjiang in 1990, there were 84.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 469,968 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Jingjiang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jingjiang 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). Jingjiang 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, Jingjiang covered 86 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 7.4 times its size, and its people are 8.4 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Jingjiang in 2025 — about 1 in 2,778.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1092 Malatya Türkiye506,854
- 1093 Kashgar506,476
- 1094 Kohat Pakistan506,145
- 1095 Belkuchi Bangladesh505,615
- 1096 Jingjiang505,098
- 1097 Mansehra Pakistan503,920
- 1098 Bakersfield United States503,676
- 1099 Nha Trang Vietnam503,051
- 1100 Anqing503,036
In China, 2025
- 1088 Hegang509,748
- 1090 Fuxin508,131
- 1091 Shunyi507,591
- 1093 Kashgar506,476
- 1096 Jingjiang505,098
- 1100 Anqing503,036
- 1106 Anshun499,794
- 1114 Yangjiang496,608
- 1117 Huludao495,819
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 Jingjiang are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Jingjiang 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 →
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