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Shehong, 
China
251,287 people lived in Shehong in 2025. It is the 2316th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 414th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Shehong 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 Shehong grew
For every 10 people in Shehong in 1975, there were 7.7 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 210,281 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Shehong through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shehong 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). Shehong 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, Shehong covered 20 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.3 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people have fallen by 27%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Shehong in 2025 — about 1 in 5,556.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2312 Sunamganj Bangladesh251,822
- 2313 Tiaret Algeria251,576
- 2314 Vladimir Russia251,498
- 2315 Golmud251,353
- 2316 Shehong251,287
- 2318 Jiangyou251,202
- 2320 Araria India251,001
- 2321 Rangunia Bangladesh250,564
- 2322 Kyzylorda Kazakhstan250,557
In China, 2025
- 2200 Jining265,293
- 2248 Jianhu259,681
- 2265 Dinghai District257,524
- 2315 Golmud251,353
- 2316 Shehong251,287
- 2318 Jiangyou251,202
- 2436 Xinchang240,747
- 2439 Fenghua District240,478
- 2582 Binhai227,533
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 Shehong 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 Shehong 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