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Cities · China · 35.4° N, 116.6° E
Jining, 
China
803,706 people lived in Jining (35.4° N, 116.6° E) in 2025. It is the 657th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 98th 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jining grew
Count 10 people in Jining in 1975 and the same count gives 34.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 648,762 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Jining through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jining in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Jining 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, Jining covered 111 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 31 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 3.8 times its size, and its people are 3.5 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Jining, which is 803,706 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 Jining; 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
- 653 Detroit United States809,894
- 654 Goma Democratic Republic of the Congo809,601
- 655 Pontianak Indonesia808,759
- 656 Udaipur India807,617
- 657 Jining803,706
- 658 Andijon Uzbekistan803,518
- 659 Abeokuta Nigeria801,826
- 660 Belagavi India800,130
- 661 Bilaspur India799,772
In China, 2025
- 630 Tengzhou834,697
- 637 Baoji823,847
- 639 Huangshi821,445
- 652 Quzhou811,735
- 657 Jining803,706
- 664 Qinhuangdao797,748
- 667 Jincheng794,234
- 673 Yingkou786,031
- 674 Suzhou785,949
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 Jining 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 Jining 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