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Qiqihar, 
China
892,744 people lived in Qiqihar in 2025. It is the 580th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 86th 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Qiqihar grew
Count 10 people in Qiqihar in 1975 and the same count gives 12.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 800,156 people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1985 and 1990.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Qiqihar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qiqihar 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 Qiqihar; 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, Qiqihar covered 95 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 57%, and its people have grown by 21%.
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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Qiqihar, which is 892,744 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Qiqihar. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 576 Stuttgart Germany899,103
- 577 Ad Diwaniyah Iraq894,478
- 578 Lille France893,282
- 579 Erode India892,758
- 580 Qiqihar892,744
- 581 Marseille France891,463
- 582 Sitamarhi India889,696
- 583 The Hague Netherlands886,444
- 584 Nampula Mozambique885,780
In China, 2025
- 553 Linfen945,174
- 558 Ma'anshan929,836
- 564 Xuchang916,553
- 568 Weifang908,584
- 580 Qiqihar892,744
- 587 Huadu882,089
- 596 Chenghai875,988
- 599 Hengyang873,169
- 609 Xinxiang858,975
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 Qiqihar 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 Qiqihar 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