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Xianyang, 
China
537,601 people lived in Xianyang in 2025. It is the 1029th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 187th largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Xianyang's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xianyang grew
Where Xianyang had 10 people in 1975, it had 27.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 488,338 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
Xianyang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xianyang 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 Xianyang; 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, Xianyang covered 99 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 46 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 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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 Xianyang in 2025 — about 1 in 2,632.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1025 Mbeya Tanzania539,248
- 1026 Kupang Indonesia538,998
- 1027 Shaoyang538,432
- 1028 Fengrun538,206
- 1029 Xianyang537,601
- 1030 Buram Sudan537,169
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos Brazil536,073
- 1032 Bettiah India535,979
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela535,164
In China, 2025
- 1012 Huazhou543,709
- 1020 Chengtougu541,451
- 1027 Shaoyang538,432
- 1028 Fengrun538,206
- 1029 Xianyang537,601
- 1035 Bengbu535,096
- 1044 Bozhou531,429
- 1050 Beibei527,806
- 1051 Langfang527,161
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 Xianyang 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 Xianyang 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