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Xuchang, 
China
916,553 people lived in Xuchang in 2025. It is the 564th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 84th 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 Xuchang's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xuchang grew
For every 10 people in Xuchang in 1975, there were 36.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 800,812 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Xuchang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xuchang 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 Xuchang; 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, Xuchang covered 123 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 30 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 Xuchang, which is 916,553 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 Xuchang; 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
- 560 Chandanaish Bangladesh928,788
- 561 Jos Nigeria923,652
- 562 Libreville Gabon921,216
- 563 Jerusalem Israel920,478
- 564 Xuchang916,553
- 565 Ikorodu Nigeria916,166
- 566 Shiraz Iran914,496
- 567 Blantyre Malawi909,289
- 568 Weifang908,584
In China, 2025
- 536 Xiangyang969,011
- 537 Fushan968,359
- 553 Linfen945,174
- 558 Ma'anshan929,836
- 564 Xuchang916,553
- 568 Weifang908,584
- 580 Qiqihar892,744
- 587 Huadu882,089
- 596 Chenghai875,988
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 Xuchang 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 Xuchang 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