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Shengze, 
China
562,800 people lived in Shengze in 2025. It is the 974th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 173rd 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 Shengze's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shengze grew
Count 10 people in Shengze in 1975 and the same count gives 111.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 754,750 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Shengze through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shengze 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 Shengze; 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, Shengze covered 88 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 19.6 times its size, and its people are 9.3 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 Shengze in 2025 — about 1 in 2,500.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 970 Kahramanmaraş Türkiye565,732
- 971 Baguio Philippines565,522
- 972 Ondo Nigeria564,330
- 973 Gothenburg Sweden562,945
- 974 Shengze562,800
- 975 Sultanpur India562,032
- 976 Al Minya Egypt561,945
- 977 Denizli Türkiye561,327
- 978 Otsu Japan559,798
In China, 2025
- 935 Loudi585,521
- 936 Cangzhou585,507
- 951 Beihai577,338
- 952 Binzhou576,823
- 974 Shengze562,800
- 982 Yulin558,277
- 983 Yuncheng558,182
- 985 Shangrao556,394
- 988 Yitang555,576
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Shengze 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 Shengze 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 →
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