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Maoming, 
China
599,504 people lived in Maoming in 2025. It is the 908th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 162nd 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 Maoming's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Maoming grew
Count 10 people in Maoming in 1975 and the same count gives 97.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 568,378 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Maoming through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maoming in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Maoming is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Maoming covered 79 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 9.6 times its size, and its people are 9.7 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 China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Maoming in 2025 — about 1 in 2,381.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 904 Tyumen Russia602,535
- 905 Khan Yunis Palestine601,421
- 906 Jangalpara India600,501
- 907 Leshan600,101
- 908 Maoming599,504
- 909 Chifeng599,299
- 910 Londrina Brazil598,731
- 911 Ado Ekiti Nigeria598,230
- 912 Kingston Jamaica598,012
In China, 2025
- 896 Zhangjiakou606,124
- 899 Anqiu605,324
- 903 Changzhi602,771
- 907 Leshan600,101
- 908 Maoming599,504
- 909 Chifeng599,299
- 913 Jiujiang597,681
- 914 Huaibei596,613
- 915 Huiyang596,451
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 Maoming 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 Maoming 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