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Shunyi, 
China
507,591 people lived in Shunyi in 2025. It is the 1091st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 202nd largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Shunyi governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shunyi grew
Count 10 people in Shunyi in 1980 and the same count gives 87 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 575,331 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. 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: 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
Shunyi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shunyi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Shunyi is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Shunyi covered 123 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 km² of it. That is 67 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 14.7 times its size, and its people are 8.7 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 Shunyi in 2025 — about 1 in 2,778.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1087 Jinhe510,984
- 1088 Hegang509,748
- 1089 Wrocław Poland508,528
- 1090 Fuxin508,131
- 1091 Shunyi507,591
- 1092 Malatya Türkiye506,854
- 1093 Kashgar506,476
- 1094 Kohat Pakistan506,145
- 1095 Belkuchi Bangladesh505,615
In China, 2025
- 1085 Tianshui511,831
- 1087 Jinhe510,984
- 1088 Hegang509,748
- 1090 Fuxin508,131
- 1091 Shunyi507,591
- 1093 Kashgar506,476
- 1096 Jingjiang505,098
- 1100 Anqing503,036
- 1106 Anshun499,794
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 Shunyi 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 Shunyi 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