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Tongling, 
China
383,739 people lived in Tongling in 2025. It is the 1482nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 275th 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 Tongling's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tongling grew
For every 10 people in Tongling in 1975, there were 18.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 357,669 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Tongling through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tongling in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tongling 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, Tongling covered 59 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 84%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Tongling in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1478 Gdansk Poland384,985
- 1479 Muzaffargarh Pakistan384,838
- 1480 Haicheng383,983
- 1481 Caxias do Sul Brazil383,774
- 1482 Tongling383,739
- 1483 Eluru India383,068
- 1484 Villavicencio Colombia383,028
- 1485 Rewa India383,019
- 1486 Badaun India382,686
In China, 2025
- 1472 Changping386,664
- 1476 Yongkang385,247
- 1477 Fuqing385,081
- 1480 Haicheng383,983
- 1482 Tongling383,739
- 1488 Guangyuan381,738
- 1490 Changji/Sanji381,391
- 1494 Dongyang380,793
- 1499 Laiwu379,135
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 Tongling 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 Tongling 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