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Ningde, 
China
314,107 people lived in Ningde in 2025. It is the 1825th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 337th 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 Ningde's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ningde grew
Where Ningde had 10 people in 1990, it had 54.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 290,067 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Ningde through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ningde in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ningde is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ningde covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5.2 times its size, and its people are 5.5 times as many.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Ningde in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 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
- 1829 Raoping313,705
In China, 2025
- 1815 Guiping315,905
- 1820 Miluo315,273
- 1821 Tongzhou315,167
- 1824 Nankang314,564
- 1825 Ningde314,107
- 1827 Hezhou313,994
- 1829 Raoping313,705
- 1835 Lufeng312,588
- 1853 Emeishan310,503
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 Ningde are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Ningde 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