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Yancheng, 
China
1,093,432 people lived in Yancheng in 2025. It is the 470th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 67th 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 Yancheng grew
For every 10 people in Yancheng in 1975, there were 200.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Yancheng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yancheng 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). Yancheng 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, Yancheng covered 207 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 53 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 11.4 times its size, and its people are 20 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Yancheng, which is 1.1 million 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 Yancheng; 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
- 466 Minneapolis [Saint Paul] United States1,107,243
- 467 East Jerusalem Palestine1,105,567
- 468 Solapur India1,102,702
- 469 Tianjia‘an1,100,258
- 470 Yancheng1,093,432
- 471 Natal Brazil1,089,473
- 472 Yerevan Armenia1,089,209
- 473 Kaifeng1,087,088
- 474 Perth Australia1,079,374
In China, 2025
- 424 Ganzhou1,216,248
- 439 Yueqing1,160,214
- 455 Huizhou1,137,670
- 469 Tianjia‘an1,100,258
- 470 Yancheng1,093,432
- 473 Kaifeng1,087,088
- 477 Zhangjiagang1,068,192
- 483 Honghuagang1,062,992
- 505 Luohe1,018,295
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 Yancheng 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 Yancheng 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