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Yangzhou, 
China
759,812 people lived in Yangzhou in 2025. It is the 701st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 111th 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 Yangzhou grew
Count 10 people in Yangzhou in 1975 and the same count gives 38 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 704,324 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Yangzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yangzhou 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). Yangzhou 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, Yangzhou covered 132 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 41 km² of it. That is 54 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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 Yangzhou, which is 759,812 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 Yangzhou; 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
- 697 George Town Malaysia765,884
- 698 Hermosillo Mexico765,445
- 699 Sangli India761,451
- 700 Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom760,969
- 701 Yangzhou759,812
- 702 Mudanjiang758,800
- 703 Agartala India758,699
- 704 Kalemie Democratic Republic of the Congo758,379
- 705 Yola Nigeria758,153
In China, 2025
- 686 Yueyang775,434
- 687 Changshu774,010
- 695 Yiwu766,253
- 696 Liupanshui766,243
- 701 Yangzhou759,812
- 702 Mudanjiang758,800
- 707 Xinyu756,365
- 711 Xingtai754,483
- 713 Puyang753,625
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 Yangzhou 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 Yangzhou 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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