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Xianyou, 
China
367,523 people lived in Xianyou in 2025. It is the 1555th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 287th 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 Xianyou's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xianyou grew
Count 10 people in Xianyou in 1975 and the same count gives 17.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 331,764 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Xianyou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xianyou 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). Xianyou 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, Xianyou covered 93 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 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 13 times its size, and its people have grown by 76%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Xianyou in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1551 Sivas Türkiye368,209
- 1552 Shihezi367,883
- 1553 Plano United States367,716
- 1554 Godhra India367,633
- 1555 Xianyou367,523
- 1556 Gboko Nigeria367,407
- 1557 Riverside United States367,336
- 1558 Granada Spain367,226
- 1559 Gonaïves Haiti367,158
In China, 2025
- 1538 Taizhou371,055
- 1545 Xuancheng369,529
- 1549 Shuyang368,686
- 1552 Shihezi367,883
- 1555 Xianyou367,523
- 1562 Tong'an366,871
- 1574 Liyang363,285
- 1575 Xingping363,206
- 1577 Linhai362,290
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 Xianyou 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 Xianyou 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