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Yixing, 
China
415,587 people lived in Yixing in 2025. It is the 1352nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 252nd largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Yixing governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yixing grew
Where Yixing had 10 people in 1975, it had 57.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 386,685 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Yixing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yixing in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yixing 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, Yixing covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 18 times its size, and its people are 5.7 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 Yixing in 2025 — about 1 in 3,448.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1348 Taixing416,677
- 1349 Uvira Democratic Republic of the Congo416,523
- 1350 Lishui416,469
- 1351 Aktobe Kazakhstan416,455
- 1352 Yixing415,587
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh Egypt415,494
- 1354 Fuyang415,492
- 1355 Moçâmedes Angola415,361
- 1356 Escondido United States415,167
In China, 2025
- 1324 Shaoguan422,509
- 1328 Longyan422,165
- 1348 Taixing416,677
- 1350 Lishui416,469
- 1352 Yixing415,587
- 1354 Fuyang415,492
- 1366 Jixi412,341
- 1370 Tashikeruike411,163
- 1376 Huangyan District410,213
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Yixing 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 Yixing 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