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Xinyang, 
China
351,064 people lived in Xinyang in 2025. It is the 1632nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 298th 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 Xinyang's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xinyang grew
Where Xinyang had 10 people in 1975, it had 12.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 286,546 people in 2050.
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
Xinyang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xinyang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Xinyang 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, Xinyang covered 72 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 54 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 21%.
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 Xinyang in 2025 — about 1 in 4,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1628 Karimnagar India351,832
- 1629 Longueuil Canada351,819
- 1630 Bauru Brazil351,405
- 1631 Mwene-Ditu Democratic Republic of the Congo351,319
- 1632 Xinyang351,064
- 1633 Purulia India350,713
- 1634 Dahod India350,660
- 1635 Chimbote Peru350,281
- 1636 Setif Algeria349,825
In China, 2025
- 1588 Danyang City358,677
- 1611 Yongzhou354,335
- 1613 Lili354,151
- 1617 Haifeng353,473
- 1632 Xinyang351,064
- 1642 Gaoyou348,058
- 1661 Guankou344,468
- 1666 Dongying343,003
- 1667 Kaili342,989
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 Xinyang 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 Xinyang 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