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Yangquan, 
China
467,148 people lived in Yangquan in 2025. It is the 1190th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 224th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Yangquan is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yangquan grew
Count 10 people in Yangquan in 1975 and the same count gives 19.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 417,854 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Yangquan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yangquan 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). Yangquan 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, Yangquan covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Yangquan in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1186 Kurnool India468,997
- 1187 Changge468,159
- 1188 Brighton United Kingdom467,937
- 1189 Beilun District467,912
- 1190 Yangquan467,148
- 1191 Ryazan Russia466,086
- 1192 Ichalkaranji India465,814
- 1193 Jundiaí Brazil465,531
- 1194 Tongxiang465,450
In China, 2025
- 1178 Chuxiong471,251
- 1184 Lüliang469,647
- 1187 Changge468,159
- 1189 Beilun District467,912
- 1190 Yangquan467,148
- 1194 Tongxiang465,450
- 1197 Shanwei464,738
- 1199 Meizhou464,343
- 1200 Bijie463,837
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 Yangquan 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 Yangquan 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