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Wanzhou, 
China
544,748 people lived in Wanzhou in 2025. It is the 1009th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 182nd largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Wanzhou governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Wanzhou grew
For every 10 people in Wanzhou in 1975, there were 6.1 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 412,375 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Wanzhou fall from 914,545 in 1980 to 412,375 in 2050. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1980 figure as low: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Wanzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wanzhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Wanzhou 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, Wanzhou covered 104 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.7 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.5 times its size, and its people have fallen by 39%.
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 Wanzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 2,632.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1005 Arrah India547,584
- 1006 Meishan546,811
- 1007 Huangdao District545,983
- 1008 Silchar India544,936
- 1009 Wanzhou544,748
- 1010 Cilacap Indonesia544,657
- 1011 Hisar India543,775
- 1012 Huazhou543,709
- 1013 Bulandshahr India543,659
In China, 2025
- 995 Panjin551,709
- 997 Luhe551,106
- 1006 Meishan546,811
- 1007 Huangdao District545,983
- 1009 Wanzhou544,748
- 1012 Huazhou543,709
- 1020 Chengtougu541,451
- 1027 Shaoyang538,432
- 1028 Fengrun538,206
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 Wanzhou 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 Wanzhou 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