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Ningguo, 
China
336,274 people lived in Ningguo in 2025. It is the 1700th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 311th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ningguo governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ningguo grew
For every 10 people in Ningguo in 1995, there were 34.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 425,232 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: 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
Ningguo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ningguo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ningguo 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, Ningguo covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.4 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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 Ningguo in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1696 Thakurdwara India336,772
- 1697 Sidfa Egypt336,659
- 1698 Jimma Ethiopia336,448
- 1699 Shuozhou336,303
- 1700 Ningguo336,274
- 1701 Pupri India336,223
- 1702 Shouguang336,017
- 1703 Tanur India335,953
- 1704 Garawan Egypt335,801
In China, 2025
- 1683 Bo'ai339,876
- 1687 Yan'an338,883
- 1694 Sihui337,299
- 1699 Shuozhou336,303
- 1700 Ningguo336,274
- 1702 Shouguang336,017
- 1709 Changyi335,538
- 1713 Tianmen334,299
- 1715 Jianyang333,938
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ningguo 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 Ningguo 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