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Xiangtan, 
China
326,965 people lived in Xiangtan in 2025. It is the 1757th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 324th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Xiangtan is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xiangtan grew
For every 10 people in Xiangtan in 1975, there were 18.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 318,514 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Xiangtan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xiangtan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Xiangtan is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Xiangtan covered 57 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 82%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Xiangtan in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1753 Balıkesir Türkiye328,080
- 1754 Tacna Peru327,582
- 1755 Baoshan327,416
- 1756 Girga Egypt327,081
- 1757 Xiangtan326,965
- 1758 Bhadohi India326,738
- 1759 Kuala Terengganu Malaysia326,615
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón Mexico326,226
- 1761 Port-de-Paix Haiti326,041
In China, 2025
- 1739 Dashiqiao330,302
- 1749 Shangyu District328,545
- 1750 Ya'an328,287
- 1755 Baoshan327,416
- 1757 Xiangtan326,965
- 1765 Jiaonan325,383
- 1768 Kaiping324,576
- 1773 Lieshan323,702
- 1775 Huangshan323,492
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Xiangtan 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 Xiangtan 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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