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Wenling, 
China
390,282 people lived in Wenling in 2025. It is the 1458th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 270th 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 Wenling grew
For every 10 people in Wenling in 1975, there were 44.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 377,974 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Wenling through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wenling in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Wenling 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, Wenling covered 90 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 53 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 18.8 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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 Wenling in 2025 — about 1 in 3,571.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1454 Zheba390,709
- 1455 Cardiff United Kingdom390,692
- 1456 Takht Bhai Pakistan390,608
- 1457 Kassala Sudan390,525
- 1458 Wenling390,282
- 1459 Soyo Angola389,945
- 1460 Rangkasbitung Indonesia389,934
- 1461 Sikasso Mali389,804
- 1462 Hawrah Yemen389,641
In China, 2025
- 1440 Danzhou City394,343
- 1444 Ezhou393,658
- 1449 Jiyuan392,568
- 1454 Zheba390,709
- 1458 Wenling390,282
- 1472 Changping386,664
- 1476 Yongkang385,247
- 1477 Fuqing385,081
- 1480 Haicheng383,983
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 Wenling 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 Wenling 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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