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Suining, 
China
613,678 people lived in Suining in 2025. It is the 882nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 155th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Suining 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 Suining grew
For every 10 people in Suining in 1975, there were 77.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 531,862 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Suining through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Suining in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Suining 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, Suining covered 72 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 20 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 times its size, and its people are 7.7 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 Suining in 2025 — about 1 in 2,326.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 878 Ribeirao Preto Brazil615,090
- 879 Mar del Plata Argentina614,979
- 880 Lipa Philippines614,898
- 881 Salta Argentina613,956
- 882 Suining613,678
- 883 Uberlândia Brazil613,434
- 884 Bissau Guinea-Bissau612,643
- 885 Rajmahal India612,055
- 886 Al Ismailiya Egypt612,046
In China, 2025
- 859 Qujing630,828
- 866 Pingxiang623,055
- 867 Xiashan622,080
- 870 Hengshui618,465
- 882 Suining613,678
- 889 Xingning609,923
- 894 Zhaoqing607,624
- 896 Zhangjiakou606,124
- 899 Anqiu605,324
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 Suining 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 Suining 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