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Jinzhong, 
China
473,959 people lived in Jinzhong in 2025. It is the 1169th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 219th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Jinzhong is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jinzhong grew
For every 10 people in Jinzhong in 1975, there were 17.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 471,365 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
Jinzhong through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jinzhong in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Jinzhong 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, Jinzhong covered 64 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 75%.
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 Jinzhong in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1165 Orlando United States477,249
- 1166 Etawah India475,213
- 1167 Gusau Nigeria475,004
- 1168 Annaba Algeria474,367
- 1169 Jinzhong473,959
- 1170 Oshogbo Nigeria473,929
- 1171 Ghazipur India473,824
- 1172 Maringá Brazil473,708
- 1173 Palma de Mallorca Spain473,499
In China, 2025
- 1155 Huai'an District480,263
- 1157 Gaomi479,056
- 1158 Yulin478,875
- 1164 Zigong477,271
- 1169 Jinzhong473,959
- 1178 Chuxiong471,251
- 1184 Lüliang469,647
- 1187 Changge468,159
- 1189 Beilun District467,912
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 Jinzhong 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 Jinzhong 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