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Panjin, 
China
551,709 people lived in Panjin in 2025. It is the 995th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 178th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Panjin is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Panjin grew
Count 10 people in Panjin in 1975 and the same count gives 36.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 492,443 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Panjin through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Panjin 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). Panjin 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, Panjin covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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 Panjin in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 991 Rampur India553,229
- 992 M'bour Senegal553,170
- 993 Yaroslavl Russia553,086
- 994 Tampa United States551,988
- 995 Panjin551,709
- 996 Azamgarh India551,621
- 997 Luhe551,106
- 998 Boumerdes Algeria550,700
- 999 Bahraich India550,317
In China, 2025
- 982 Yulin558,277
- 983 Yuncheng558,182
- 985 Shangrao556,394
- 988 Yitang555,576
- 995 Panjin551,709
- 997 Luhe551,106
- 1006 Meishan546,811
- 1007 Huangdao District545,983
- 1009 Wanzhou544,748
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 Panjin 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 Panjin 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