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Macau - Zhuhai, 
Macao
2,203,065 people lived in Macau - Zhuhai in 2025. It is the 229th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Macao, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Macau - Zhuhai governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
The dense built-up area runs from Macao into Zhuhai, in mainland China; the UN counts the whole city under Macao.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Macau - Zhuhai grew
For every 10 people in Macau - Zhuhai in 1975, there were 76 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1995 and 2000.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Macau - Zhuhai through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Macau - Zhuhai in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Macao · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Macau - Zhuhai is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Macao in 2025, 1 in all, 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, Macau - Zhuhai covered 262 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 50 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 22.8 times its size, and its people are 7.6 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 Macao
Its share of Macao
The dense built-up area runs from Macao into Zhuhai, in mainland China; the UN counts the whole city under Macao. So it is not drawn as a share of Macao's people: the city holds more people than Macao itself.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 225 Philadelphia United States2,232,420
- 226 Fukuoka Japan2,225,078
- 227 Meerut India2,209,886
- 228 Barranquilla Colombia2,208,021
- 229 Macau - Zhuhai2,203,065
- 230 Doha Qatar2,193,708
- 231 Kaohsiung Taiwan2,187,455
- 232 Las Vegas United States2,183,655
- 233 Belém Brazil2,180,454
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 Macau - Zhuhai 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 Macau - Zhuhai 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