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Jinshan, 
China
307,246 people lived in Jinshan in 2025. It is the 1872nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 346th 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 Jinshan'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 Jinshan grew
For every 10 people in Jinshan in 1980, there were 54.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 402,564 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Jinshan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jinshan 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). Jinshan 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, Jinshan covered 71 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 58 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people are 5.5 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 Jinshan in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1868 Tonghua308,016
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela307,794
- 1870 Al-Shatrah Iraq307,652
- 1871 Tapachula Mexico307,334
- 1872 Jinshan307,246
- 1873 Damoh India307,218
- 1874 Ughelli Nigeria307,005
- 1875 Juliaca Peru306,990
- 1876 Dessie Ethiopia306,979
In China, 2025
- 1858 Huairou309,856
- 1862 Xichang309,170
- 1865 Cangnan308,925
- 1868 Tonghua308,016
- 1872 Jinshan307,246
- 1879 Cenxi306,146
- 1884 Gaoming304,429
- 1889 Gao'an304,111
- 1897 Zhaotong302,089
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 Jinshan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Jinshan 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