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Yanjiao, 
China
294,943 people lived in Yanjiao in 2025. It is the 1968th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 363rd 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 Yanjiao grew
For every 10 people in Yanjiao in 1975, there were 19.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 313,667 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Yanjiao through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yanjiao in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yanjiao is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Yanjiao covered 66 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 55 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.4 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
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 Yanjiao in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1964 Sincelejo Colombia295,401
- 1965 Barinas Venezuela295,298
- 1966 Hechuan295,189
- 1967 Wardha India295,117
- 1968 Yanjiao294,943
- 1969 Franceville Gabon294,863
- 1970 Khanpur Pakistan294,821
- 1971 Oryol Russia294,739
- 1972 Simferopol Ukraine294,735
In China, 2025
- 1949 Wenjiang296,976
- 1958 Renqiu295,917
- 1963 Pinghu295,531
- 1966 Hechuan295,189
- 1968 Yanjiao294,943
- 1979 Anlu293,857
- 1990 Bayannur291,787
- 2001 Baicheng290,420
- 2017 Huilai288,590
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 Yanjiao 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 Yanjiao 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