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Shangqiu, 
China
676,590 people lived in Shangqiu in 2025. It is the 803rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 139th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Shangqiu is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shangqiu grew
Where Shangqiu had 10 people in 1975, it had 29.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 518,764 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Shangqiu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shangqiu 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). Shangqiu 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, Shangqiu covered 170 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 41 km² of it. That is 60 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.2 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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 Shangqiu in 2025 — about 1 in 2,083.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 799 Jingzhou678,632
- 800 Ankang678,483
- 801 Yamunanagar India677,536
- 802 Mymensingh Bangladesh677,433
- 803 Shangqiu676,590
- 804 Bazhong City675,756
- 805 Barcelona Venezuela674,757
- 806 Sha Tin Hong Kong674,476
- 807 Calabar Nigeria673,427
In China, 2025
- 791 Longgang681,306
- 794 Youyi680,993
- 799 Jingzhou678,632
- 800 Ankang678,483
- 803 Shangqiu676,590
- 804 Bazhong City675,756
- 808 Jiamusi673,406
- 815 Fushun665,286
- 819 Leiyang662,696
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Shangqiu 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 Shangqiu 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