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Quzhou, 
China
811,735 people lived in Quzhou in 2025. It is the 652nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 97th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Quzhou 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 Quzhou grew
Count 10 people in Quzhou in 1975 and the same count gives 153.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 797,051 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
Quzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Quzhou 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 Quzhou; 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, Quzhou covered 179 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 30 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 24.6 times its size, and its people are 15.4 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Quzhou, which is 811,735 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 Quzhou; 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
- 648 Al Mushahidah Iraq813,506
- 649 Mit Ghamr Egypt812,947
- 650 Sukkur Pakistan812,885
- 651 Barquisimeto Venezuela812,384
- 652 Quzhou811,735
- 653 Detroit United States809,894
- 654 Goma Democratic Republic of the Congo809,601
- 655 Pontianak Indonesia808,759
- 656 Udaipur India807,617
In China, 2025
- 626 Fuyang839,236
- 630 Tengzhou834,697
- 637 Baoji823,847
- 639 Huangshi821,445
- 652 Quzhou811,735
- 657 Jining803,706
- 664 Qinhuangdao797,748
- 667 Jincheng794,234
- 673 Yingkou786,031
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 Quzhou 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 Quzhou 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