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Yanji, 
China
461,800 people lived in Yanji in 2025. It is the 1204th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 230th 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 Yanji grew
For every 10 people in Yanji in 1975, there were 18.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 406,524 people in 2050.
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
Yanji through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yanji 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 Yanji; 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, Yanji covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 84%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Yanji in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1200 Bijie463,837
- 1201 Haldwani India463,530
- 1202 West Valley City United States463,325
- 1203 Yuhu462,605
- 1204 Yanji461,800
- 1205 Morogoro Tanzania461,634
- 1206 Zhanghua City Taiwan461,552
- 1207 Kismayo Somalia461,302
- 1208 Purnia India461,043
In China, 2025
- 1197 Shanwei464,738
- 1199 Meizhou464,343
- 1200 Bijie463,837
- 1203 Yuhu462,605
- 1204 Yanji461,800
- 1216 Jiaozhou457,288
- 1232 Jiangyang452,500
- 1238 Heyuan449,860
- 1243 Zoucheng447,484
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 Yanji 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 Yanji 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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