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Jingzhou, 
China
678,632 people lived in Jingzhou in 2025. It is the 799th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 137th 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 Jingzhou grew
For every 10 people in Jingzhou in 1975, there were 17.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 558,257 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
Jingzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jingzhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Jingzhou 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, Jingzhou covered 110 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people have grown by 71%.
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 Jingzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 2,083.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 795 Jamnagar India680,589
- 796 Winnipeg Canada679,037
- 797 Garoua Cameroon678,769
- 798 Kitwe Zambia678,749
- 799 Jingzhou678,632
- 800 Ankang678,483
- 801 Yamunanagar India677,536
- 802 Mymensingh Bangladesh677,433
- 803 Shangqiu676,590
In China, 2025
- 776 Dazhou693,707
- 784 Zhoukou689,599
- 791 Longgang681,306
- 794 Youyi680,993
- 799 Jingzhou678,632
- 800 Ankang678,483
- 803 Shangqiu676,590
- 804 Bazhong City675,756
- 808 Jiamusi673,406
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Jingzhou 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 Jingzhou 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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