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Pingliang, 
China
398,221 people lived in Pingliang in 2025. It is the 1423rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 263rd largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Pingliang's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Pingliang grew
For every 10 people in Pingliang in 1975, there were 47.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 368,304 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Pingliang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pingliang 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 Pingliang; 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, Pingliang covered 27 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.9 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 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 Pingliang in 2025 — about 1 in 3,571.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1419 Stockton United States398,470
- 1420 Biratnagar Nepal398,453
- 1421 Pratapgarh India398,315
- 1422 Sanya398,270
- 1423 Pingliang398,221
- 1424 Strasbourg France398,175
- 1425 Volta Redonda Brazil398,107
- 1426 Bergamo Italy398,050
- 1427 Potiskum Nigeria397,981
In China, 2025
- 1394 Daqing405,480
- 1395 Jiashan405,454
- 1418 Wuzhou398,593
- 1422 Sanya398,270
- 1423 Pingliang398,221
- 1429 Heze397,886
- 1434 Xinxing395,115
- 1440 Danzhou City394,343
- 1444 Ezhou393,658
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 Pingliang 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 Pingliang 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