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Shuozhou, 
China
336,303 people lived in Shuozhou in 2025. It is the 1699th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 310th largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shuozhou grew
Count 10 people in Shuozhou in 1985 and the same count gives 64.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 319,632 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Shuozhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shuozhou 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 Shuozhou; 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, Shuozhou covered 40 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 33 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 6.4 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Shuozhou in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1695 Mandi Bahauddin Pakistan337,161
- 1696 Thakurdwara India336,772
- 1697 Sidfa Egypt336,659
- 1698 Jimma Ethiopia336,448
- 1699 Shuozhou336,303
- 1700 Ningguo336,274
- 1701 Pupri India336,223
- 1702 Shouguang336,017
- 1703 Tanur India335,953
In China, 2025
- 1675 Neijiang341,371
- 1683 Bo'ai339,876
- 1687 Yan'an338,883
- 1694 Sihui337,299
- 1699 Shuozhou336,303
- 1700 Ningguo336,274
- 1702 Shouguang336,017
- 1709 Changyi335,538
- 1713 Tianmen334,299
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 Shuozhou are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Shuozhou 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 →
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