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Qujing, 
China
630,828 people lived in Qujing in 2025. It is the 859th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 151st largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Qujing 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 Qujing grew
Count 10 people in Qujing in 1975 and the same count gives 81.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 592,295 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Qujing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qujing 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 Qujing; 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, Qujing covered 106 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 9.2 times its size, and its people are 4.7 times as many.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Qujing in 2025 — about 1 in 2,222.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 855 Al-Fashir Sudan633,077
- 856 Bordeaux France631,551
- 857 Yuxi631,209
- 858 Ajmer India631,176
- 859 Qujing630,828
- 860 Benghazi Libya630,479
- 861 Seeb Oman630,072
- 862 Lokoja Nigeria629,547
- 863 Lviv Ukraine627,280
In China, 2025
- 849 Mianyang636,781
- 852 Liaoyang635,212
- 854 Fangshan633,763
- 857 Yuxi631,209
- 859 Qujing630,828
- 866 Pingxiang623,055
- 867 Xiashan622,080
- 870 Hengshui618,465
- 882 Suining613,678
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 Qujing 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 Qujing 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