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Suizhou, 
China
282,058 people lived in Suizhou in 2025. It is the 2062nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 381st 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Suizhou grew
For every 10 people in Suizhou in 1975, there were 5.6 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 178,729 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Suizhou fall from 504,648 in 1980 to 178,729 in 2050. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1980 figure as low: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Suizhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Suizhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Suizhou 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, Suizhou covered 66 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 56 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people have fallen by 44%.
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 Suizhou in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2058 Chía Colombia282,679
- 2059 Kemangkon Indonesia282,463
- 2060 Al Majidi Yemen282,395
- 2061 Hamamatsu Japan282,084
- 2062 Suizhou282,058
- 2063 Moundou Chad281,943
- 2064 Ikirun Nigeria281,875
- 2065 Heroica Nogales Mexico281,580
- 2066 Cape Coast Ghana281,579
In China, 2025
- 2001 Baicheng290,420
- 2017 Huilai288,590
- 2018 Weinan288,582
- 2055 Sanhe282,844
- 2062 Suizhou282,058
- 2108 Pinggu274,753
- 2117 Xianning274,146
- 2123 Yibin273,660
- 2130 Sanmenxia272,970
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 Suizhou 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 Suizhou 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