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Kaiping, 
China
324,576 people lived in Kaiping in 2025. It is the 1768th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 326th 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 Kaiping's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kaiping grew
Count 10 people in Kaiping in 1985 and the same count gives 60.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 350,354 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Kaiping through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kaiping in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kaiping 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, Kaiping covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.6 times its size, and its people are 6 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Kaiping in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1764 Sanandaj Iran325,425
- 1765 Jiaonan325,383
- 1766 Canoas Brazil325,022
- 1767 Sumedang Indonesia324,936
- 1768 Kaiping324,576
- 1769 Uruapan Mexico324,219
- 1770 Pandeglang Indonesia324,139
- 1771 Khorramabad Iran324,110
- 1772 Montpellier France324,059
In China, 2025
- 1750 Ya'an328,287
- 1755 Baoshan327,416
- 1757 Xiangtan326,965
- 1765 Jiaonan325,383
- 1768 Kaiping324,576
- 1773 Lieshan323,702
- 1775 Huangshan323,492
- 1790 Chuzhou321,424
- 1796 Aksu320,179
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Kaiping are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Kaiping 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