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Shangyu District, 
China
328,545 people lived in Shangyu District in 2025. It is the 1749th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 321st largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Shangyu District's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shangyu District grew
Where Shangyu District had 10 people in 1990, it had 41.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 415,881 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Shangyu District through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shangyu District 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). Shangyu District 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, Shangyu District covered 94 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 51 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 10.6 times its size, and its people are 4.2 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 Shangyu District in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1745 Kumba Cameroon329,340
- 1746 Shiblanga Egypt328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig Egypt328,639
- 1748 Shizuoka Japan328,613
- 1749 Shangyu District328,545
- 1750 Ya'an328,287
- 1751 Tezpur India328,217
- 1752 Puri India328,196
- 1753 Balıkesir Türkiye328,080
In China, 2025
- 1727 Hui'an332,559
- 1732 Liaoyuan331,469
- 1738 Xuanwei330,467
- 1739 Dashiqiao330,302
- 1749 Shangyu District328,545
- 1750 Ya'an328,287
- 1755 Baoshan327,416
- 1757 Xiangtan326,965
- 1765 Jiaonan325,383
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 Shangyu District are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Shangyu District 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