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Pinghu, 
China
295,531 people lived in Pinghu in 2025. It is the 1963rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 361st largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Pinghu grew
Where Pinghu had 10 people in 1990, it had 48 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 398,827 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. 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
Pinghu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pinghu in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Pinghu 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, Pinghu covered 60 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 11.6 times its size, and its people are 4.8 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 Pinghu in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1958 Renqiu295,917
- 1959 Wonosobo Indonesia295,758
- 1960 Colima Mexico295,757
- 1962 Ségou Mali295,589
- 1963 Pinghu295,531
- 1964 Sincelejo Colombia295,401
- 1965 Barinas Venezuela295,298
- 1966 Hechuan295,189
- 1967 Wardha India295,117
In China, 2025
- 1937 Shengzhou297,906
- 1938 Xiantao297,859
- 1949 Wenjiang296,976
- 1958 Renqiu295,917
- 1963 Pinghu295,531
- 1966 Hechuan295,189
- 1968 Yanjiao294,943
- 1979 Anlu293,857
- 1990 Bayannur291,787
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 Pinghu 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 Pinghu 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 →
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