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Pingdingshan, 
China
779,154 people lived in Pingdingshan in 2025. It is the 682nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 106th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Pingdingshan 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 Pingdingshan grew
For every 10 people in Pingdingshan in 1975, there were 34.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 685,508 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Pingdingshan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pingdingshan 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 Pingdingshan; 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, Pingdingshan covered 125 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Pingdingshan, which is 779,154 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in China, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Pingdingshan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 678 Nanyang782,146
- 679 Zhenjiang781,639
- 680 Jalgaon India781,486
- 681 Muscat Oman780,545
- 682 Pingdingshan779,154
- 683 Rourkela India776,631
- 684 Bahawalpur Pakistan776,611
- 685 Kharagpur India776,133
- 686 Yueyang775,434
In China, 2025
- 674 Suzhou785,949
- 677 Yingkou782,210
- 678 Nanyang782,146
- 679 Zhenjiang781,639
- 682 Pingdingshan779,154
- 686 Yueyang775,434
- 687 Changshu774,010
- 695 Yiwu766,253
- 696 Liupanshui766,243
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 Pingdingshan 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 Pingdingshan 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