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Qingzhou, 
China
342,044 people lived in Qingzhou in 2025. It is the 1673rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 305th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Qingzhou 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 Qingzhou grew
Where Qingzhou had 10 people in 1980, it had 54.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 300,870 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Qingzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qingzhou 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). Qingzhou 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, Qingzhou covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 67 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 5.6 times its size, and its people are 5.5 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Qingzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1669 Tiruvannamalai India342,795
- 1670 Yanshi District342,565
- 1671 Dujiangyan342,467
- 1672 Tahoua Niger342,253
- 1673 Qingzhou342,044
- 1674 Sherpur Bangladesh341,630
- 1675 Neijiang341,371
- 1676 Iligan Philippines341,172
- 1677 Kigoma Tanzania340,483
In China, 2025
- 1666 Dongying343,003
- 1667 Kaili342,989
- 1670 Yanshi District342,565
- 1671 Dujiangyan342,467
- 1673 Qingzhou342,044
- 1675 Neijiang341,371
- 1683 Bo'ai339,876
- 1687 Yan'an338,883
- 1694 Sihui337,299
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 Qingzhou are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Qingzhou 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