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Pingxiang, 
China
623,055 people lived in Pingxiang in 2025. It is the 866th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 152nd largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Pingxiang 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 Pingxiang grew
Count 10 people in Pingxiang in 1975 and the same count gives 20.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 607,295 people in 2050.
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
Pingxiang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pingxiang 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). Pingxiang 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, Pingxiang covered 109 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.3 times its size, and its people are 2 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 Pingxiang in 2025 — about 1 in 2,273.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
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- 862 Lokoja Nigeria629,547
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- 864 Chiang Mai Thailand626,629
- 865 Zagreb Croatia623,091
- 866 Pingxiang623,055
- 867 Xiashan622,080
- 868 Chiclayo Peru620,622
- 869 Bannu Pakistan620,328
- 870 Hengshui618,465
In China, 2025
- 852 Liaoyang635,212
- 854 Fangshan633,763
- 857 Yuxi631,209
- 859 Qujing630,828
- 866 Pingxiang623,055
- 867 Xiashan622,080
- 870 Hengshui618,465
- 882 Suining613,678
- 889 Xingning609,923
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 Pingxiang 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 Pingxiang 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