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Jinhua, 
China
998,519 people lived in Jinhua in 2025. It is the 512th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 73rd largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Jinhua's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jinhua grew
Count 10 people in Jinhua in 1975 and the same count gives 178.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 982,880 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Jinhua through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jinhua 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). Jinhua 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, Jinhua covered 135 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 31 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 11.4 times its size, and its people are 17.8 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 Jinhua, which is 998,519 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in China, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Jinhua's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 508 Hải Phòng Vietnam1,015,494
- 509 Helsingfors Finland1,014,317
- 510 Cartagena Colombia1,008,584
- 511 Malda India1,001,322
- 512 Jinhua998,519
- 513 Puducherry India998,290
- 514 Mataram Indonesia997,132
- 515 Nara Japan993,952
- 516 Mangaluru India993,566
In China, 2025
- 477 Zhangjiagang1,068,192
- 483 Honghuagang1,062,992
- 505 Luohe1,018,295
- 506 Binhai New Area1,017,230
- 512 Jinhua998,519
- 518 Shiyan992,165
- 520 Shunqing990,466
- 522 Linyi987,615
- 527 Zhuzhou979,244
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Jinhua 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 Jinhua 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