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Xuancheng, 
China
369,529 people lived in Xuancheng in 2025. It is the 1545th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 284th 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xuancheng grew
Count 10 people in Xuancheng in 1975 and the same count gives 44.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 344,354 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Xuancheng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xuancheng 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). Xuancheng 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, Xuancheng covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.1 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Xuancheng in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1541 Dewas India370,472
- 1542 Al-Manshah Egypt370,283
- 1543 Daura Nigeria369,916
- 1544 Qarchak Iran369,782
- 1545 Xuancheng369,529
- 1546 Brest Belarus369,414
- 1547 Campina Grande Brazil369,184
- 1548 Dehri India368,750
- 1549 Shuyang368,686
In China, 2025
- 1511 Xinghua375,876
- 1519 Haimen374,644
- 1536 Liuyang371,661
- 1538 Taizhou371,055
- 1545 Xuancheng369,529
- 1549 Shuyang368,686
- 1552 Shihezi367,883
- 1555 Xianyou367,523
- 1562 Tong'an366,871
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 Xuancheng 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 Xuancheng 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 →
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