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Cities · China · 41.0° N, 113.1° E
Jining, 
China
265,293 people lived in Jining (41.0° N, 113.1° E) in 2025. It is the 2200th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 402nd largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Jining is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jining grew
For every 10 people in Jining in 1975, there were 8.2 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 239,282 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
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: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Jining 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, Jining covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 79%, and its people have fallen by 18%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Jining in 2025 — about 1 in 5,263.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2192 Porlamar Venezuela265,905
- 2195 Nazareth Israel265,611
- 2196 Kaithal India265,502
- 2197 El Oued Algeria265,408
- 2200 Jining265,293
- 2203 Nautan India264,437
- 2204 Shikohabad India264,322
- 2205 Tima Egypt264,280
- 2206 Kaunas Lithuania264,162
In China, 2025
- 2123 Yibin273,660
- 2130 Sanmenxia272,970
- 2162 Wuqing269,223
- 2187 Yaguang266,899
- 2200 Jining265,293
- 2248 Jianhu259,681
- 2265 Dinghai District257,524
- 2315 Golmud251,353
- 2316 Shehong251,287
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 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