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Shuyang, 
China
368,686 people lived in Shuyang in 2025. It is the 1549th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 285th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Shuyang is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shuyang grew
For every 10 people in Shuyang in 1975, there were 9 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 342,249 people in 2050.
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
Shuyang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shuyang 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 Shuyang; 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, Shuyang covered 74 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 51 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.2 times its size, and its people have fallen by 10%.
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 Shuyang in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1545 Xuancheng369,529
- 1546 Brest Belarus369,414
- 1547 Campina Grande Brazil369,184
- 1548 Dehri India368,750
- 1549 Shuyang368,686
- 1550 Thoothukudi India368,221
- 1551 Sivas Türkiye368,209
- 1552 Shihezi367,883
- 1553 Plano United States367,716
In China, 2025
- 1519 Haimen374,644
- 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
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 Shuyang 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 Shuyang 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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