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Suqian, 
China
725,070 people lived in Suqian in 2025. It is the 739th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 122nd largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Suqian is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Suqian grew
Where Suqian had 10 people in 1975, it had 68 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 608,728 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Suqian through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Suqian in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Suqian 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, Suqian covered 132 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 30 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 8.3 times its size, and its people are 4.9 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Suqian, which is 725,070 people.
How to read this: shrink China to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Suqian; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 735 Tulungagung Indonesia728,924
- 736 Balikpapan Indonesia728,771
- 737 Zhumadian727,923
- 738 Al Ahsa Saudi Arabia725,760
- 739 Suqian725,070
- 740 Louhajang Bangladesh725,057
- 741 Kamina Democratic Republic of the Congo724,982
- 742 Bouaké Côte d’Ivoire724,691
- 743 Meknes Morocco722,852
In China, 2025
- 725 Dandong738,721
- 730 Benxi734,933
- 734 Lu'an729,998
- 737 Zhumadian727,923
- 739 Suqian725,070
- 744 Yingxia719,432
- 745 Gulin718,364
- 747 Linchuan718,050
- 755 Xiaogan711,726
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 Suqian 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 Suqian 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