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Qingyuan, 
China
702,881 people lived in Qingyuan in 2025. It is the 763rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 130th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Qingyuan 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 Qingyuan grew
For every 10 people in Qingyuan in 1975, there were 65.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 765,053 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Qingyuan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qingyuan 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 Qingyuan; 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, Qingyuan covered 139 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 7.4 times its size, and its people are 3 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Qingyuan, which is 702,881 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 Qingyuan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 759 Jiaozuo704,917
- 760 Rasoi India703,790
- 761 Yiyang703,724
- 762 Tai'an703,020
- 763 Qingyuan702,881
- 764 Milwaukee United States701,928
- 765 Culiacán Mexico701,609
- 766 Akure Nigeria700,747
- 767 Deyang700,386
In China, 2025
- 755 Xiaogan711,726
- 759 Jiaozuo704,917
- 761 Yiyang703,724
- 762 Tai'an703,020
- 763 Qingyuan702,881
- 767 Deyang700,386
- 772 Donghe696,169
- 776 Dazhou693,707
- 784 Zhoukou689,599
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 Qingyuan 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 Qingyuan 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