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Mudanjiang, 
China
758,800 people lived in Mudanjiang in 2025. It is the 702nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 112th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Mudanjiang is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mudanjiang grew
For every 10 people in Mudanjiang in 1975, there were 13.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 663,006 people in 2050.
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
Mudanjiang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mudanjiang 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). Mudanjiang 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, Mudanjiang covered 117 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 78%, and its people have grown by 31%.
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 Mudanjiang, which is 758,800 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in China, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Mudanjiang's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 698 Hermosillo Mexico765,445
- 699 Sangli India761,451
- 700 Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom760,969
- 701 Yangzhou759,812
- 702 Mudanjiang758,800
- 703 Agartala India758,699
- 704 Kalemie Democratic Republic of the Congo758,379
- 705 Yola Nigeria758,153
- 706 Taxila Pakistan757,451
In China, 2025
- 687 Changshu774,010
- 695 Yiwu766,253
- 696 Liupanshui766,243
- 701 Yangzhou759,812
- 702 Mudanjiang758,800
- 707 Xinyu756,365
- 711 Xingtai754,483
- 713 Puyang753,625
- 714 Jiaxing751,156
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 Mudanjiang 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 Mudanjiang 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