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Wuqing, 
China
269,223 people lived in Wuqing in 2025. It is the 2162nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 394th 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 Wuqing grew
Where Wuqing had 10 people in 1975, it had 36.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 299,315 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Wuqing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wuqing in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Wuqing 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, Wuqing covered 60 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 59 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.9 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Wuqing in 2025 — about 1 in 5,263.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2158 Minakhan India270,142
- 2159 Muriya India269,810
- 2160 Ijebu-Igbo Nigeria269,742
- 2161 Dadu Pakistan269,400
- 2162 Wuqing269,223
- 2164 Kabinda Democratic Republic of the Congo269,115
- 2165 Beldanga India269,051
- 2166 Dodoma Tanzania269,047
- 2167 Patahi India268,862
In China, 2025
- 2108 Pinggu274,753
- 2117 Xianning274,146
- 2123 Yibin273,660
- 2130 Sanmenxia272,970
- 2162 Wuqing269,223
- 2187 Yaguang266,899
- 2200 Jining265,293
- 2248 Jianhu259,681
- 2265 Dinghai District257,524
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 Wuqing 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 Wuqing 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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