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Puyang, 
China
753,625 people lived in Puyang in 2025. It is the 713th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 115th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Puyang 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 Puyang grew
For every 10 people in Puyang in 1975, there were 44.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 687,607 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Puyang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Puyang 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). Puyang 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, Puyang covered 122 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.3 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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 Puyang, which is 753,625 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 Puyang's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 709 Rajshahi Bangladesh755,347
- 710 Malabo Equatorial Guinea754,834
- 711 Xingtai754,483
- 712 Kalaburagi India753,963
- 713 Puyang753,625
- 714 Jiaxing751,156
- 715 Mersin Türkiye750,396
- 716 Thessaloniki Greece749,840
- 717 Dortmund Germany748,106
In China, 2025
- 701 Yangzhou759,812
- 702 Mudanjiang758,800
- 707 Xinyu756,365
- 711 Xingtai754,483
- 713 Puyang753,625
- 714 Jiaxing751,156
- 718 Yichun745,754
- 725 Dandong738,721
- 730 Benxi734,933
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 Puyang 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 Puyang 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