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Shizhong, 
China
433,213 people lived in Shizhong in 2025. It is the 1290th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 240th 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 Shizhong's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
The UN writes its name 市中区; “Shizhong” is our romanization.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shizhong grew
Count 10 people in Shizhong in 1975 and the same count gives 59.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 355,656 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Shizhong through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shizhong 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 Shizhong; 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, Shizhong covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 57 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 5.9 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 Shizhong in 2025 — about 1 in 3,226.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1286 Gaozhou435,368
- 1287 Seremban Malaysia434,530
- 1288 Bhilwara India434,406
- 1289 Daska Pakistan433,772
- 1290 Shizhong433,213
- 1291 Mbandaka Democratic Republic of the Congo432,976
- 1292 Hamilton Canada432,788
- 1293 Huiminxiang432,064
- 1294 Jhusi India431,880
In China, 2025
- 1252 Chaoyang443,864
- 1265 Zhanjiang440,587
- 1282 Guang'an436,199
- 1286 Gaozhou435,368
- 1290 Shizhong433,213
- 1293 Huiminxiang432,064
- 1305 Huidong428,137
- 1311 Hanchuan426,922
- 1314 Longquanyi426,144
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 Shizhong 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 Shizhong 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