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Linchuan, 
China
718,050 people lived in Linchuan in 2025. It is the 747th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 125th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Linchuan governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Linchuan grew
Count 10 people in Linchuan in 1980 and the same count gives 103 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 670,188 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. 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
Linchuan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Linchuan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,082 cities in China in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Shanghai. The ringed dot in colour is Linchuan; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Linchuan covered 79 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 7.5 times its size, and its people are 10.3 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Linchuan, which is 718,050 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 Linchuan; 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
- 743 Meknes Morocco722,852
- 744 Yingxia719,432
- 745 Gulin718,364
- 746 Patiala India718,308
- 747 Linchuan718,050
- 748 Haridwar India717,990
- 749 Makhachkala Russia717,618
- 750 Iloilo City Philippines717,038
- 751 Jepara Indonesia714,514
In China, 2025
- 737 Zhumadian727,923
- 739 Suqian725,070
- 744 Yingxia719,432
- 745 Gulin718,364
- 747 Linchuan718,050
- 755 Xiaogan711,726
- 759 Jiaozuo704,917
- 761 Yiyang703,724
- 762 Tai'an703,020
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 Linchuan 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 Linchuan 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