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Xinghua, 
China
375,876 people lived in Xinghua in 2025. It is the 1511th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 280th 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 Xinghua's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xinghua grew
Count 10 people in Xinghua in 1990 and the same count gives 57.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 349,197 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Xinghua through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xinghua in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Xinghua 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, Xinghua covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 5.8 times as many.
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 Xinghua in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1507 Mirpur Khas Pakistan376,343
- 1508 Stavropol Russia376,062
- 1509 Tirunelveli India376,005
- 1510 Timika Indonesia375,910
- 1511 Xinghua375,876
- 1512 Lalpur Bangladesh375,833
- 1513 Posadas Argentina375,741
- 1514 Viluppuram India375,616
- 1515 Tawau Malaysia375,573
In China, 2025
- 1488 Guangyuan381,738
- 1490 Changji/Sanji381,391
- 1494 Dongyang380,793
- 1499 Laiwu379,135
- 1511 Xinghua375,876
- 1519 Haimen374,644
- 1536 Liuyang371,661
- 1538 Taizhou371,055
- 1545 Xuancheng369,529
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Xinghua are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Xinghua 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