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Tai'an, 
China
703,020 people lived in Tai'an in 2025. It is the 762nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 129th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Tai'an 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 Tai'an grew
Count 10 people in Tai'an in 1975 and the same count gives 17.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 632,401 people in 2050.
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
Tai'an through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tai'an in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tai'an 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, Tai'an covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 75%.
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 Tai'an, which is 703,020 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Tai'an. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 758 Donetsk Ukraine705,832
- 759 Jiaozuo704,917
- 760 Rasoi India703,790
- 761 Yiyang703,724
- 762 Tai'an703,020
- 763 Qingyuan702,881
- 764 Milwaukee United States701,928
- 765 Culiacán Mexico701,609
- 766 Akure Nigeria700,747
In China, 2025
- 747 Linchuan718,050
- 755 Xiaogan711,726
- 759 Jiaozuo704,917
- 761 Yiyang703,724
- 762 Tai'an703,020
- 763 Qingyuan702,881
- 767 Deyang700,386
- 772 Donghe696,169
- 776 Dazhou693,707
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 Tai'an 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 Tai'an 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