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Qinhuangdao, 
China
797,748 people lived in Qinhuangdao in 2025. It is the 664th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 99th largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Qinhuangdao grew
Count 10 people in Qinhuangdao in 1975 and the same count gives 32 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 839,723 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Qinhuangdao through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qinhuangdao in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Qinhuangdao is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Qinhuangdao covered 126 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 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 2.6 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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 Qinhuangdao, which is 797,748 people.
How to read this: shrink China to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Qinhuangdao; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 660 Belagavi India800,130
- 661 Bilaspur India799,772
- 662 Kandahar Afghanistan799,015
- 663 Cuiabá Brazil798,772
- 664 Qinhuangdao797,748
- 665 Arusha Tanzania795,744
- 666 Chelyabinsk Russia794,411
- 667 Jincheng794,234
- 668 Oyo Nigeria793,241
In China, 2025
- 637 Baoji823,847
- 639 Huangshi821,445
- 652 Quzhou811,735
- 657 Jining803,706
- 664 Qinhuangdao797,748
- 667 Jincheng794,234
- 673 Yingkou786,031
- 674 Suzhou785,949
- 677 Yingkou782,210
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 Qinhuangdao 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 Qinhuangdao 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