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Tonghua, 
China
308,016 people lived in Tonghua in 2025. It is the 1868th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 345th 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 Tonghua's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tonghua grew
Where Tonghua had 10 people in 1975, it had 10.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 275,160 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Tonghua through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tonghua in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tonghua 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, Tonghua covered 22 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.3 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 79%, and its people have grown by 8%.
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 Tonghua in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1864 Nagasaki Japan308,986
- 1865 Cangnan308,925
- 1866 Qoqand Uzbekistan308,393
- 1867 Jacobabad Pakistan308,137
- 1868 Tonghua308,016
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela307,794
- 1870 Al-Shatrah Iraq307,652
- 1871 Tapachula Mexico307,334
- 1872 Jinshan307,246
In China, 2025
- 1853 Emeishan310,503
- 1858 Huairou309,856
- 1862 Xichang309,170
- 1865 Cangnan308,925
- 1868 Tonghua308,016
- 1872 Jinshan307,246
- 1879 Cenxi306,146
- 1884 Gaoming304,429
- 1889 Gao'an304,111
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 Tonghua 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 Tonghua 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