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Wuxue, 
China
211,544 people lived in Wuxue in 2025. It is the 2808th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 491st largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Wuxue governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Wuxue grew
For every 10 people in Wuxue in 1975, there were 8.6 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 187,512 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Wuxue through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wuxue in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Wuxue 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, Wuxue covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.1 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.8 times its size, and its people have fallen by 14%.
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 Wuxue in 2025 — about 1 in 6,667.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2797 Bandundu Democratic Republic of the Congo212,016
- 2799 Darauli India211,985
- 2801 Koliwar India211,825
- 2807 Dashoguz Turkmenistan211,569
- 2808 Wuxue211,544
- 2817 Kabondo-Dianda Democratic Republic of the Congo211,167
- 2824 Madaripur Bangladesh210,635
- 2827 Ennerdale South Africa210,428
- 2835 Blitta-Gare Togo209,755
In China, 2025
- 2318 Jiangyou251,202
- 2436 Xinchang240,747
- 2439 Fenghua District240,478
- 2582 Binhai227,533
- 2808 Wuxue211,544
- 2921 Nanxun204,276
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 Wuxue 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 Wuxue 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