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Pinggu, 
China
274,753 people lived in Pinggu in 2025. It is the 2108th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 387th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Pinggu is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Pinggu grew
For every 10 people in Pinggu in 1980, there were 48.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 300,521 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Pinggu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pinggu in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Pinggu 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, Pinggu covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 5.7 times its size, and its people are 4.9 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Pinggu in 2025 — about 1 in 5,263.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2104 Iași Romania275,840
- 2105 Erin Woods Canada275,476
- 2106 Glenfield New Zealand275,322
- 2107 Morbi India275,191
- 2108 Pinggu274,753
- 2109 Koléa Algeria274,748
- 2110 Ambato Ecuador274,672
- 2111 Pucallpa Peru274,639
- 2112 Reading United Kingdom274,632
In China, 2025
- 2017 Huilai288,590
- 2018 Weinan288,582
- 2055 Sanhe282,844
- 2062 Suizhou282,058
- 2108 Pinggu274,753
- 2117 Xianning274,146
- 2123 Yibin273,660
- 2130 Sanmenxia272,970
- 2162 Wuqing269,223
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 Pinggu are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Pinggu 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