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Shengzhou, 
China
297,906 people lived in Shengzhou in 2025. It is the 1937th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 356th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Shengzhou is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shengzhou grew
Count 10 people in Shengzhou in 1980 and the same count gives 56.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 404,511 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Shengzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shengzhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Shengzhou is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Shengzhou covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 10.5 times its size, and its people are 5.6 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 Shengzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1931 Baochi298,433
- 1932 Bojonegoro Indonesia298,285
- 1934 Arlington Heights United States298,081
- 1935 Guigang298,077
- 1937 Shengzhou297,906
- 1938 Xiantao297,859
- 1939 Karur India297,598
- 1940 Siguiri Guinea297,453
- 1941 Pokhara Nepal297,320
In China, 2025
- 1902 Changxing301,206
- 1922 Yongcheng299,180
- 1931 Baochi298,433
- 1935 Guigang298,077
- 1937 Shengzhou297,906
- 1938 Xiantao297,859
- 1949 Wenjiang296,976
- 1958 Renqiu295,917
- 1963 Pinghu295,531
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 Shengzhou are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Shengzhou 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