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Shihezi, 
China
367,883 people lived in Shihezi in 2025. It is the 1552nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 286th 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 Shihezi's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shihezi grew
Count 10 people in Shihezi in 1990 and the same count gives 31.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 375,135 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. 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: 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
Shihezi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shihezi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Shihezi 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, Shihezi covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 Shihezi in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1548 Dehri India368,750
- 1549 Shuyang368,686
- 1550 Thoothukudi India368,221
- 1551 Sivas Türkiye368,209
- 1552 Shihezi367,883
- 1553 Plano United States367,716
- 1554 Godhra India367,633
- 1555 Xianyou367,523
- 1556 Gboko Nigeria367,407
In China, 2025
- 1536 Liuyang371,661
- 1538 Taizhou371,055
- 1545 Xuancheng369,529
- 1549 Shuyang368,686
- 1552 Shihezi367,883
- 1555 Xianyou367,523
- 1562 Tong'an366,871
- 1574 Liyang363,285
- 1575 Xingping363,206
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 Shihezi 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 Shihezi 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