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Wenjiang, 
China
296,976 people lived in Wenjiang in 2025. It is the 1949th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 358th 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 Wenjiang grew
Where Wenjiang had 10 people in 1975, it had 26.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 252,247 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: 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
Wenjiang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wenjiang 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 Wenjiang; 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, Wenjiang covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 13.2 times its size, and its people are 2 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Wenjiang in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1945 Smolensk Russia297,177
- 1946 Al-Mahmudiya Egypt297,143
- 1947 Attingal India297,140
- 1948 Moulvibazar Bangladesh297,098
- 1949 Wenjiang296,976
- 1950 Valsad India296,851
- 1951 Ankleshwar India296,840
- 1952 Najibabad India296,669
- 1954 Birnin Kebbi Nigeria296,331
In China, 2025
- 1931 Baochi298,433
- 1935 Guigang298,077
- 1937 Shengzhou297,906
- 1938 Xiantao297,859
- 1949 Wenjiang296,976
- 1958 Renqiu295,917
- 1963 Pinghu295,531
- 1966 Hechuan295,189
- 1968 Yanjiao294,943
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 Wenjiang 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 Wenjiang 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 →
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