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Nankang, 
China
314,564 people lived in Nankang in 2025. It is the 1824th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 336th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Nankang governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nankang grew
Count 10 people in Nankang in 1995 and the same count gives 50.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 304,549 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Nankang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nankang 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 Nankang; 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, Nankang covered 45 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 6.6 times its size, and its people are 5.1 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Nankang in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1820 Miluo315,273
- 1821 Tongzhou315,167
- 1822 Safadasht Iran315,054
- 1823 Wanlaweyn Somalia314,824
- 1824 Nankang314,564
- 1825 Ningde314,107
- 1826 Tambov Russia314,026
- 1827 Hezhou313,994
- 1828 Kodarma India313,949
In China, 2025
- 1805 Qili318,490
- 1815 Guiping315,905
- 1820 Miluo315,273
- 1821 Tongzhou315,167
- 1824 Nankang314,564
- 1825 Ningde314,107
- 1827 Hezhou313,994
- 1829 Raoping313,705
- 1835 Lufeng312,588
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 Nankang are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Nankang 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