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Cities · China · 32.5° N, 119.9° E
Taizhou, 
China
371,055 people lived in Taizhou (32.5° N, 119.9° E) in 2025. It is the 1538th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 283rd largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Taizhou 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 Taizhou grew
Where Taizhou had 10 people in 1980, it had 58.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 339,232 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Taizhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Taizhou 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). Taizhou 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, Taizhou covered 81 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 67 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 5.7 times its size, and its people are 5.9 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 Taizhou in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1534 Celaya Mexico372,139
- 1535 Oyigbo Nigeria371,913
- 1536 Liuyang371,661
- 1537 Pasto Colombia371,637
- 1538 Taizhou371,055
- 1539 Zanjan Iran370,993
- 1540 Muridke Pakistan370,563
- 1541 Dewas India370,472
- 1542 Al-Manshah Egypt370,283
In China, 2025
- 1499 Laiwu379,135
- 1511 Xinghua375,876
- 1519 Haimen374,644
- 1536 Liuyang371,661
- 1538 Taizhou371,055
- 1545 Xuancheng369,529
- 1549 Shuyang368,686
- 1552 Shihezi367,883
- 1555 Xianyou367,523
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 Taizhou are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Taizhou 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