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Yichun, 
China
745,754 people lived in Yichun in 2025. It is the 718th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 117th 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yichun grew
Count 10 people in Yichun in 1975 and the same count gives 99.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 730,986 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Yichun through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yichun 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). Yichun 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, Yichun covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.5 times its size, and its people are 9.9 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Yichun, which is 745,754 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Yichun. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 714 Jiaxing751,156
- 715 Mersin Türkiye750,396
- 716 Thessaloniki Greece749,840
- 717 Dortmund Germany748,106
- 718 Yichun745,754
- 719 Damietta Egypt743,111
- 720 La Plata Argentina742,952
- 721 Bilbao Spain741,795
- 722 Zinder Niger740,218
In China, 2025
- 707 Xinyu756,365
- 711 Xingtai754,483
- 713 Puyang753,625
- 714 Jiaxing751,156
- 718 Yichun745,754
- 725 Dandong738,721
- 730 Benxi734,933
- 734 Lu'an729,998
- 737 Zhumadian727,923
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 Yichun 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 Yichun 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