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Ma'anshan, 
China
929,836 people lived in Ma'anshan in 2025. It is the 558th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 83rd largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ma'anshan 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 Ma'anshan grew
Count 10 people in Ma'anshan in 1975 and the same count gives 54.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 867,029 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Ma'anshan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ma'anshan 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 Ma'anshan; 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, Ma'anshan covered 117 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 5.5 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Ma'anshan, which is 929,836 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Ma'anshan. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 554 Homs Syria940,460
- 555 Bucaramanga Colombia939,291
- 556 Samarqand Uzbekistan932,219
- 557 Banjarmasin Indonesia930,711
- 558 Ma'anshan929,836
- 559 Teresina Brazil929,795
- 560 Chandanaish Bangladesh928,788
- 561 Jos Nigeria923,652
- 562 Libreville Gabon921,216
In China, 2025
- 534 Baoding970,162
- 536 Xiangyang969,011
- 537 Fushan968,359
- 553 Linfen945,174
- 558 Ma'anshan929,836
- 564 Xuchang916,553
- 568 Weifang908,584
- 580 Qiqihar892,744
- 587 Huadu882,089
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 Ma'anshan 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 Ma'anshan 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