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Weinan, 
China
288,582 people lived in Weinan in 2025. It is the 2018th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 371st largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Weinan grew
Count 10 people in Weinan in 1975 and the same count gives 47.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 265,514 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Weinan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Weinan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Weinan 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, Weinan covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 4.8 times as many.
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 Weinan in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2011 Tacoma United States289,128
- 2012 Kombolcha Ethiopia288,941
- 2013 Mayiladuthurai India288,923
- 2017 Huilai288,590
- 2018 Weinan288,582
- 2019 Nag Hammadi Egypt288,576
- 2020 Bratislava Slovakia288,533
- 2021 Bhiwani India288,360
- 2025 Timergara Pakistan287,866
In China, 2025
- 1979 Anlu293,857
- 1990 Bayannur291,787
- 2001 Baicheng290,420
- 2017 Huilai288,590
- 2018 Weinan288,582
- 2055 Sanhe282,844
- 2062 Suizhou282,058
- 2108 Pinggu274,753
- 2117 Xianning274,146
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 Weinan 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 Weinan 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