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Taixing, 
China
416,677 people lived in Taixing in 2025. It is the 1348th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 250th largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Taixing's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Taixing grew
Count 10 people in Taixing in 1990 and the same count gives 76.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 387,910 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Taixing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Taixing in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Taixing is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Taixing covered 71 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 6.5 times its size, and its people are 7.6 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Taixing in 2025 — about 1 in 3,448.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1344 Petrolina Brazil418,619
- 1345 Nice France418,294
- 1346 Eldoret Kenya418,175
- 1347 Chandrapur India416,903
- 1348 Taixing416,677
- 1349 Uvira Democratic Republic of the Congo416,523
- 1350 Lishui416,469
- 1351 Aktobe Kazakhstan416,455
- 1352 Yixing415,587
In China, 2025
- 1318 Ziyang424,328
- 1321 Jingdezhen423,386
- 1324 Shaoguan422,509
- 1328 Longyan422,165
- 1348 Taixing416,677
- 1350 Lishui416,469
- 1352 Yixing415,587
- 1354 Fuyang415,492
- 1366 Jixi412,341
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 Taixing are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Taixing 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