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Nanxun, 
China
204,276 people lived in Nanxun in 2025. It is the 2921st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 512th 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 Nanxun's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nanxun grew
Count 10 people in Nanxun in 1975 and the same count gives 32.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 316,515 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Nanxun through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nanxun 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). Nanxun 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, Nanxun covered 53 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 69 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 7.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 46%.
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 Nanxun in 2025 — about 1 in 7,143.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2902 Havelian Cantonment Pakistan205,608
- 2908 Mongbwalu Democratic Republic of the Congo205,051
- 2915 Firozkoh Afghanistan204,753
- 2920 Alaba Kulito Ethiopia204,316
- 2921 Nanxun204,276
- 2922 Batkhela Pakistan204,156
- 2924 Asarganj India204,072
- 2926 Livingstone Zambia203,972
- 2927 Muktagacha Bangladesh203,965
In China, 2025
- 2436 Xinchang240,747
- 2439 Fenghua District240,478
- 2582 Binhai227,533
- 2808 Wuxue211,544
- 2921 Nanxun204,276
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 Nanxun 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 Nanxun 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 →
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