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Xuzhou, 
China
1,402,001 people lived in Xuzhou in 2025. It is the 360th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 55th 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 Xuzhou grew
Count 10 people in Xuzhou in 1975 and the same count gives 15.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Xuzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xuzhou 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 Xuzhou; 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, Xuzhou covered 231 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 59 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 52%.
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 Xuzhou, which is 1.4 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in China, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Xuzhou's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 356 Al Zaqaziq Egypt1,416,734
- 357 Asyut Egypt1,406,963
- 358 Brussels Belgium1,406,499
- 359 Seattle United States1,403,495
- 360 Xuzhou1,402,001
- 361 Niamey Niger1,401,149
- 362 Liuzhou1,400,880
- 363 Mesa United States1,398,369
- 364 Portland United States1,397,788
In China, 2025
- 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
- 375 Huaiyin District1,349,827
- 385 Zhongshan1,326,078
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 Xuzhou 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 Xuzhou 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