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Shunqing, 
China
990,466 people lived in Shunqing in 2025. It is the 520th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 75th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Shunqing 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 Shunqing grew
Count 10 people in Shunqing in 1975 and the same count gives 27.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 856,538 people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Shunqing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shunqing in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Shunqing 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, Shunqing covered 86 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.3 times its size, and its people are 2.7 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Shunqing, which is 990,466 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in China, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Shunqing's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 516 Mangaluru India993,566
- 517 San Luis Potosí Mexico992,648
- 518 Shiyan992,165
- 519 Gaya India991,081
- 520 Shunqing990,466
- 521 Porto Portugal990,433
- 522 Linyi987,615
- 523 Kharameh Iran983,056
- 524 Edmonton Canada981,522
In China, 2025
- 505 Luohe1,018,295
- 506 Binhai New Area1,017,230
- 512 Jinhua998,519
- 518 Shiyan992,165
- 520 Shunqing990,466
- 522 Linyi987,615
- 527 Zhuzhou979,244
- 531 Guilin973,970
- 534 Baoding970,162
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 Shunqing 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 Shunqing 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