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Ranghulu, 
China
424,460 people lived in Ranghulu in 2025. It is the 1317th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 245th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ranghulu 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 Ranghulu grew
For every 10 people in Ranghulu in 1975, there were 48.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 396,543 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
Ranghulu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ranghulu 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). Ranghulu 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, Ranghulu covered 98 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 52 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.6 times its size, and its people are 4.9 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 Ranghulu in 2025 — about 1 in 3,333.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1313 Gresik Indonesia426,246
- 1314 Longquanyi426,144
- 1315 Dere Nigeria425,674
- 1316 Torit South Sudan424,731
- 1317 Ranghulu424,460
- 1318 Ziyang424,328
- 1319 Shivamogga India423,880
- 1320 Deoghar India423,674
- 1321 Jingdezhen423,386
In China, 2025
- 1293 Huiminxiang432,064
- 1305 Huidong428,137
- 1311 Hanchuan426,922
- 1314 Longquanyi426,144
- 1317 Ranghulu424,460
- 1318 Ziyang424,328
- 1321 Jingdezhen423,386
- 1324 Shaoguan422,509
- 1328 Longyan422,165
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 Ranghulu 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 Ranghulu 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