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Wuhu, 
China
1,631,043 people lived in Wuhu in 2025. It is the 300th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 47th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Wuhu 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 Wuhu grew
Where Wuhu had 10 people in 1975, it had 43.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.5 million people in 2050. It passed a million 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
Wuhu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wuhu 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 Wuhu; 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, Wuhu covered 121 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 4.4 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Wuhu, which is 1.6 million people.
How to read this: shrink China to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Wuhu; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 296 Boston United States1,639,797
- 297 Ahwaz Iran1,639,321
- 298 Bareilly India1,635,214
- 299 Campinas Brazil1,631,432
- 300 Wuhu1,631,043
- 301 Zibo1,620,676
- 302 San Salvador El Salvador1,615,178
- 303 Gaziantep Türkiye1,613,357
- 304 Budapest Hungary1,609,260
In China, 2025
- 278 Xiamen City1,788,492
- 279 Handan1,777,172
- 284 Luoyang1,727,744
- 291 Nantong1,684,417
- 300 Wuhu1,631,043
- 301 Zibo1,620,676
- 315 Datong1,573,531
- 340 Baotou1,491,964
- 341 Anyang1,489,112
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 Wuhu 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 Wuhu 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