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Meizhou, 
China
464,343 people lived in Meizhou in 2025. It is the 1199th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 227th 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 Meizhou's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Meizhou grew
For every 10 people in Meizhou in 1980, there were 69.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 495,648 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990. 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: 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
Meizhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Meizhou 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). Meizhou 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, Meizhou covered 95 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people are 6.9 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 Meizhou in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1195 Balia India465,399
- 1196 Manado Indonesia464,793
- 1197 Shanwei464,738
- 1198 San Juan Argentina464,466
- 1199 Meizhou464,343
- 1200 Bijie463,837
- 1201 Haldwani India463,530
- 1202 West Valley City United States463,325
- 1203 Yuhu462,605
In China, 2025
- 1189 Beilun District467,912
- 1190 Yangquan467,148
- 1194 Tongxiang465,450
- 1197 Shanwei464,738
- 1199 Meizhou464,343
- 1200 Bijie463,837
- 1203 Yuhu462,605
- 1204 Yanji461,800
- 1216 Jiaozhou457,288
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 Meizhou 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 Meizhou 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