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Shangrao, 
China
556,394 people lived in Shangrao in 2025. It is the 985th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 176th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Shangrao 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 Shangrao grew
For every 10 people in Shangrao in 1985, there were 102 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 506,170 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Shangrao through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shangrao 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). Shangrao 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, Shangrao covered 99 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 7.7 times its size, and its people are 10.2 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 Shangrao in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 981 Davanagere India559,117
- 982 Yulin558,277
- 983 Yuncheng558,182
- 984 Kalyanpur India557,803
- 985 Shangrao556,394
- 986 Malacca City Malaysia555,703
- 987 Ambon Indonesia555,651
- 988 Yitang555,576
- 989 Dresden Germany554,612
In China, 2025
- 952 Binzhou576,823
- 974 Shengze562,800
- 982 Yulin558,277
- 983 Yuncheng558,182
- 985 Shangrao556,394
- 988 Yitang555,576
- 995 Panjin551,709
- 997 Luhe551,106
- 1006 Meishan546,811
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 Shangrao are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Shangrao 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