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Renqiu, 
China
295,917 people lived in Renqiu in 2025. It is the 1958th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 359th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Renqiu governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Renqiu grew
Where Renqiu had 10 people in 1995, it had 44.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 349,864 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Renqiu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Renqiu 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 Renqiu; 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, Renqiu covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 74 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 4.4 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Renqiu in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1954 Birnin Kebbi Nigeria296,331
- 1955 Gumi-si South Korea296,323
- 1956 Tanga Tanzania296,202
- 1957 Kankan Guinea296,159
- 1958 Renqiu295,917
- 1959 Wonosobo Indonesia295,758
- 1960 Colima Mexico295,757
- 1962 Ségou Mali295,589
- 1963 Pinghu295,531
In China, 2025
- 1935 Guigang298,077
- 1937 Shengzhou297,906
- 1938 Xiantao297,859
- 1949 Wenjiang296,976
- 1958 Renqiu295,917
- 1963 Pinghu295,531
- 1966 Hechuan295,189
- 1968 Yanjiao294,943
- 1979 Anlu293,857
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 Renqiu are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Renqiu 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