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Xinyu, 
China
756,365 people lived in Xinyu in 2025. It is the 707th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 113th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Xinyu governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xinyu grew
Count 10 people in Xinyu in 1980 and the same count gives 108.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 741,120 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Xinyu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xinyu in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Xinyu 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, Xinyu covered 105 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 6.9 times its size, and its people are 10.9 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Xinyu, which is 756,365 people.
How to read this: shrink China to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Xinyu; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 703 Agartala India758,699
- 704 Kalemie Democratic Republic of the Congo758,379
- 705 Yola Nigeria758,153
- 706 Taxila Pakistan757,451
- 707 Xinyu756,365
- 708 Bonn Germany756,044
- 709 Rajshahi Bangladesh755,347
- 710 Malabo Equatorial Guinea754,834
- 711 Xingtai754,483
In China, 2025
- 695 Yiwu766,253
- 696 Liupanshui766,243
- 701 Yangzhou759,812
- 702 Mudanjiang758,800
- 707 Xinyu756,365
- 711 Xingtai754,483
- 713 Puyang753,625
- 714 Jiaxing751,156
- 718 Yichun745,754
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 Xinyu are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Xinyu 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