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Xinchang, 
China
240,747 people lived in Xinchang in 2025. It is the 2436th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 429th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Xinchang is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xinchang grew
Where Xinchang had 10 people in 1975, it had 20.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 318,177 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Xinchang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xinchang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Xinchang 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, Xinchang covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.7 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 6.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 78%.
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 Xinchang in 2025 — about 1 in 5,882.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2427 Attock Pakistan241,714
- 2430 Tambacounda Senegal241,254
- 2431 Ore Nigeria241,251
- 2432 Mianwali Pakistan241,207
- 2436 Xinchang240,747
- 2437 Payyanur India240,715
- 2438 Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm Vietnam240,480
- 2439 Fenghua District240,478
- 2445 Somerset West South Africa239,943
In China, 2025
- 2265 Dinghai District257,524
- 2315 Golmud251,353
- 2316 Shehong251,287
- 2318 Jiangyou251,202
- 2436 Xinchang240,747
- 2439 Fenghua District240,478
- 2582 Binhai227,533
- 2808 Wuxue211,544
- 2921 Nanxun204,276
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 Xinchang 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 Xinchang 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