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Xingning, 
China
609,923 people lived in Xingning in 2025. It is the 889th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 156th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Xingning 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 Xingning grew
Where Xingning had 10 people in 1985, it had 91.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 728,456 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Xingning through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xingning 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 Xingning; 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, Xingning covered 87 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 10.4 times its size, and its people are 9.1 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 Xingning in 2025 — about 1 in 2,326.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 885 Rajmahal India612,055
- 886 Al Ismailiya Egypt612,046
- 887 Hanover Germany611,288
- 888 Cipanas Indonesia610,177
- 889 Xingning609,923
- 890 Kasur Pakistan609,468
- 891 Sfax Tunisia608,293
- 892 Beira Mozambique608,097
- 893 Chapainawabganj Bangladesh607,924
In China, 2025
- 866 Pingxiang623,055
- 867 Xiashan622,080
- 870 Hengshui618,465
- 882 Suining613,678
- 889 Xingning609,923
- 894 Zhaoqing607,624
- 896 Zhangjiakou606,124
- 899 Anqiu605,324
- 903 Changzhi602,771
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 Xingning are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Xingning 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