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Weifang, 
China
908,584 people lived in Weifang in 2025. It is the 568th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 85th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Weifang 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 Weifang grew
Where Weifang had 10 people in 1975, it had 29.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 837,993 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
Weifang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Weifang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,082 cities in China in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Shanghai. The ringed dot in colour is Weifang; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Weifang covered 142 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 46 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people are 3 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Weifang, which is 908,584 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Weifang. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 564 Xuchang916,553
- 565 Ikorodu Nigeria916,166
- 566 Shiraz Iran914,496
- 567 Blantyre Malawi909,289
- 568 Weifang908,584
- 569 Sulaymaniyah Iraq907,815
- 570 Dusseldorf Germany907,386
- 571 Tbilisi Georgia906,746
- 572 Sokoto Nigeria903,238
In China, 2025
- 537 Fushan968,359
- 553 Linfen945,174
- 558 Ma'anshan929,836
- 564 Xuchang916,553
- 568 Weifang908,584
- 580 Qiqihar892,744
- 587 Huadu882,089
- 596 Chenghai875,988
- 599 Hengyang873,169
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 Weifang 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 Weifang 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