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Yanshi District, 
China
342,565 people lived in Yanshi District in 2025. It is the 1670th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 303rd largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Yanshi District's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yanshi District grew
Where Yanshi District had 10 people in 1995, it had 45.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 305,583 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Yanshi District through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yanshi District 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). Yanshi District 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, Yanshi District covered 72 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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 Yanshi District in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1666 Dongying343,003
- 1667 Kaili342,989
- 1668 Edendale South Africa342,930
- 1669 Tiruvannamalai India342,795
- 1670 Yanshi District342,565
- 1671 Dujiangyan342,467
- 1672 Tahoua Niger342,253
- 1673 Qingzhou342,044
- 1674 Sherpur Bangladesh341,630
In China, 2025
- 1642 Gaoyou348,058
- 1661 Guankou344,468
- 1666 Dongying343,003
- 1667 Kaili342,989
- 1670 Yanshi District342,565
- 1671 Dujiangyan342,467
- 1673 Qingzhou342,044
- 1675 Neijiang341,371
- 1683 Bo'ai339,876
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 Yanshi District are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Yanshi District 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