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Raoping, 
China
313,705 people lived in Raoping in 2025. It is the 1829th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 339th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Raoping is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Raoping grew
Where Raoping had 10 people in 1975, it had 23.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 359,044 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Raoping through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Raoping in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Raoping 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, Raoping covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.0 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Raoping in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1825 Ningde314,107
- 1826 Tambov Russia314,026
- 1827 Hezhou313,994
- 1828 Kodarma India313,949
- 1829 Raoping313,705
- 1830 Gandhidham India313,691
- 1831 Karaganda Kazakhstan313,529
- 1832 Samalut Egypt313,324
- 1833 Girza Egypt312,801
In China, 2025
- 1821 Tongzhou315,167
- 1824 Nankang314,564
- 1825 Ningde314,107
- 1827 Hezhou313,994
- 1829 Raoping313,705
- 1835 Lufeng312,588
- 1853 Emeishan310,503
- 1858 Huairou309,856
- 1862 Xichang309,170
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 Raoping 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 Raoping 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