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Xiuying District, 
China
1,458,377 people lived in Xiuying District in 2025. It is the 347th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 53rd largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xiuying District grew
Count 10 people in Xiuying District in 1975 and the same count gives 38.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Xiuying District through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xiuying District in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Xiuying District is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Xiuying District covered 203 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 46 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 3.9 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Xiuying District, which is 1.5 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Xiuying District. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 343 Taizhou1,483,994
- 344 Kigali Rwanda1,483,711
- 345 Raipur India1,478,688
- 346 Cordoba Argentina1,460,491
- 347 Xiuying District1,458,377
- 348 Mombasa Kenya1,456,207
- 349 Jilin City1,448,955
- 350 Angeles Philippines1,445,721
- 351 Gwangju South Korea1,441,495
In China, 2025
- 315 Datong1,573,531
- 340 Baotou1,491,964
- 341 Anyang1,489,112
- 343 Taizhou1,483,994
- 347 Xiuying District1,458,377
- 349 Jilin City1,448,955
- 360 Xuzhou1,402,001
- 362 Liuzhou1,400,880
- 372 Xining1,360,245
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Xiuying District 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 Xiuying District 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